"Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by h…"

"Mr Ruskin is morally Conservative, intellectually Radical."

"Human work must be done thoroughly and honourably because we are now men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or eve…"

"No one managed Carlyle so well as Ruskin; it was quite beautiful to see him. Carlyle would say outrageous things, run…"

"The point and stab of his challenge still really stands and sticks, like a dagger in a dead man."

"The combination of shrewd common sense and romantic sentiment; the oscillation between levity and dignity, from caust…"

"It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money — that …"

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the peo…"

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

"As an artist in prose he is one of the most miraculous products of the extremely poetical genius of England. The leng…"