John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art historian, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
I refused to lose my heart to someone who was incapable of giving me his.
—Helen Hardt in Craving