Man Writer Hope Happiness Artist Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. - John Ruskin
Society No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. - John Ruskin
Pride Nothing Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. - John Ruskin
Enjoyment Right I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it? - John Ruskin
Duty First We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. - John Ruskin
Art Man Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. - John Ruskin
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. - Francis Bacon
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. - Maimonides