Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.
~ John Ruskin

Success in school is not the same thing as success in life. University administrators in the James Conant mold assumed that people who could earn high grades would continue to excel later in their career.
~ David Brooks

via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic

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

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
~ 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

We are to remember, in the first place, that the arrangement of colours and lines is an art analogous to the composition of music, and entirely independent of the representation of facts.
~ John Ruskin

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

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

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

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