Quote of the Day — John Ruskin

John Ruskin

1819–1900

John Ruskin, born on February 8, 1819, at 54 Hunter Street, Brunswick Square, London, was one of the most influential thinkers of the Victorian age, a polymath whose work as an art critic, social philosopher, author, watercolorist, and philanthropist touched nearly every aspect of nineteenth-century cultural and intellectual life. His writings on art, architecture, nature, and society shaped the tastes and moral sensibilities of an era and continue to resonate with readers who believe that beauty, craftsmanship, and moral purpose are inseparable from the health of a civilization. Ruskin was the only child of John James Ruskin, a prosperous sherry…