Source/Notes:
Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation, John Ruskin, Wiley & Halsted, 1860, p. 283

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“A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.”
―John Ruskin

Source/Notes:
The Complete Works of John Ruskin: On the Old Road (published in 1834), p. 174, "Pre-Raphaelitism"

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“When we build, let us think that we build for ever.”
―John Ruskin

Source/Notes:
Chapter VI: The Lamp of Memory, section 10. - The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849)

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“Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.”
―John Ruskin

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“Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.”
―John Ruskin

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“It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.”
―John Ruskin

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“There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell.... You enterprised a railroad... you blasted its rocks away.... And now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-anhour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.”
―John Ruskin

Source/Notes:
Praeterita vol. 3 (1889)

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John Ruskin

Born: February 8, 1819

Died: January 20, 1900 (aged 80)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Writer, draughtsman, watercolourist, philanthropist

Bio: John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied.