architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, for whatsoever uses, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure
The Seven Lamps of Architecture - Página 7 http://books.google.com/books?id=yxscPx9aLM8C&pg=PA7, de John Ruskin - Publicado por Wiley, 1865 - 186 páginas
John Ruskin Frases famosas
“Acho que a primeira prova da grandeza de um homem é a sua humildade.”
I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility
The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion - Página 338 http://books.google.com/books?id=zz5LAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA338, de John Ruskin, L. C. Tuthill - Publicado por John Wiley & Son, 1867 - 452 páginas
Citações de homens de John Ruskin
Variante: A maior recompensa para o trabalho do homem não é o que se ganha, mas o que ele nos torna.
In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams
The Works of John Ruskin: Praeterita. 1886-87 - Volume 22 - Página 367, John Ruskin - Allen,1887
John Ruskin frases e citações
Variante: Dificilmente existirá alguma coisa neste mundo que alguém não possa fazer um pouco pior e vender um pouco mais barato. E as pessoas que consideram o preço somente, serão suas merecidas vítimas.
“A esperança deixa de ser felicidade quando acompanhada de impaciência.”
Hope herself ceases to be happiness when impatience companions her.
The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation, página 61 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=pzlcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA61, John Ruskin - John Wiley & Son, 1866 - 250 páginas
Variante: A própria esperança deixa de ser ventura quando a impaciência a acompanha.
John Ruskin: Frases em inglês
Fonte: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 267.
Lecture II, section 35
The Eagle's Nest (1872)
Volume II, chapter VI, section 12
The Stones of Venice (1853)
Praeterita, volume I, chapter IX (1885-1889)
Sesame and Lilies
A Joy for Ever, note 6 (1857)
The natural and right system respecting all labour is, that it should be paid at a fixed rate, but the good workman employed, and the bad workman unemployed. The false, unnatural, and destructive system is when the bad workman is allowed to offer his work at half-price, and either take the place of the good, or force him by his competition to work for an inadequate sum.
Essay I: "The Roots of Honour," section 29
Unto This Last (1860)
you ask. "Well, I'll get more," he says. Just as at cricket, you get more runs. There's no use in the runs, but to get more of them than other people is the game. So all that great foul city of London there, — rattling, growling, smoking, stinking, — a ghastly heap of fermenting brickwork, pouring out poison at every pore, — you fancy it is a city of work? Not a street of it! It is a great city of play; very nasty play and very hard play, but still play.
The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture I: Work, sections 23-24 (1866)
“All of one's life is a music, if one touches the notes rightly and in time.”
Lecture IV: The Crystal Orders, section 35
The Ethics of the Dust (1875)
“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”
Letter VIII: Things Written, section 33
Time and Tide (1867)