John Ruskin:
(London, 8 February 1819 – Brantwood (Lancashire), 20 January 1900). English critic who became best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is also remembered as a writer, poet and talented watercolourist. Ruskin’s essays on art and architecture were highly influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
Come, ye cold winds, at January’s call, on whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew the earth.
