Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. — John Ruskin
Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer. — John Ruskin
Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion — John Ruskin
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? — John Ruskin
Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it. — John Ruskin
That thirst (for applause) if the last infirmity of noble minds, is also the first infirmity of weak ones. — John Ruskin