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| John Ruskin
...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work. A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils. Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make. Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face. In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: They must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it. It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. Life is a magic vase filled to the brim; so made that you cannot dip into it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it-drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love. Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort. Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them. Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are. The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something... to see clearly it's poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one. The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things. There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. There is no wealth but life. There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey. There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey. This is the true nature of home – it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division. What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece. You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. |
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