Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

John Ruskin

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

John Ruskin

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

John Ruskin

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

John Ruskin

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.

John Ruskin

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

John Ruskin

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

John Ruskin

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

John Ruskin

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

John Ruskin