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

— John Ruskin, "The Lamp of Memory", The Seven Lamps of Architecture

About John Ruskin

1819 – 1900

English art critic and social thinker.

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

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

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

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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

“If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”