John Ruskin

"It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride."

"To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by w…"

"I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage."

"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."

"All of one's life is a music, if one touches the notes rightly and in time."

"Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime."

"Of all the bête, clumsy, blundering, boggling, baboon-blooded stuff I ever saw on a human stage, that thing last night beat — as far as the acting and story went — and of all the affected, sapless, so…"

"You think it a great triumph to make the sun draw brown landscapes for you! That was also a discovery, and some day may be useful. But the sun had drawn landscapes before for you, not in brown, but in…"