John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy, education, museology, geology, botany, ornithology, literature, history, and myth.
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