“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”

— John Ruskin, The Two Paths (1859)

About John Ruskin

1819 – 1900

English art critic and social thinker.

“Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.”

“God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail.”

“Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.”

“Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.”

“Beauty without purpose is beauty without virtue.”

“It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.”

“Far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined!”