There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
~ John Ruskin

All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree — not of a cloud.
~ John Ruskin

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
~ John Ruskin

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
~ John Ruskin

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
~ John Ruskin

A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.
~ John Ruskin

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The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.
~ John Ruskin