Ruskin Wished

Famous quotes containing the words ruskin and/or wished:

“How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)

“Though I had not come a-hunting, and felt some compunctions about accompanying the hunters, I wished to see a moose near at hand, and was not sorry to learn how the Indian managed to kill one. I went as reporter or chaplain to the hunters,—and the chaplain has been known to carry a gun himself.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)