EBOOK Words of Wisdom: John Ruskin

John Ruskin was a great English critic of art, architecture, and society. He was also a highly gifted painter and a distinctive prose stylist.  He was a kind of a Victorian Sage. His effective prose writings were fundamentally aimed at bringing cultural and social change.  Ruskin was a great thinker who shared his thoughts freely with his readers and listeners. He was also gifted with exceptional powers of perception and expression. All these virtues enabled him to produce some of the finest prose pieces. The emphatic and precise diction enabled him to convey the message to his readers and listeners. His thought provoking ideas, statements, and remarks were often discussed among the scholars of the time.  Several of his statements, remarks, and lines have become very popular quotations. The present collection has hundreds of such enlightening thoughts which are sure to entertain and enlighten the prospective readers.