John Ruskin

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? [cars?]

But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done.