The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.


Sesame and Lilies, lecture I: Sesame. Of King's Treasuries, section 3 (1864-1865)

John Ruskin Quotes

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.