
“How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.”
Letter to Rev. W. H. Channing (31 December 1843) quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 184.
According to Ruskin scholar George P. Landow, there is no evidence that this quotation or its variants can be found in any of Ruskin's works.
[Landow, George P., A Ruskin Quotation?, VictorianWeb.org, 2007-07-27, http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/quotation.html, 2013-01-07]
Disputed
“How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.”
Letter to Rev. W. H. Channing (31 December 1843) quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 184.
IV. Mediscque Vocatur The physician is sent for
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 608.
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter II: On discursiveness in reading, Line 6.
Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter VII : "It's Just Like Living", p. 162
“No man's more fortunate than he who's poor,
Since for the worse his fortune cannot change.”
Fragment 23
Fabulae Incertae
Letter to Edmund Burke (24 January 1779), quoted in L. G. Mitchell, Charles James Fox (London: Penguin, 1997), p. 41.
1770s
“In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.”
A Short History of Decay (1949)
Source: The Cornel West Reader