Daily Dose

From Choice Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

CURRENT COIN

"Knowledge is the current coin. A man may have some right to be proud of possessing it, if he has worked for the gold of it, and assayed it, and stamped it, so that it may be received of all men as true; or earned it fairly, being already assayed: but if he has done none of these things, but only had it thrown in his face by a passer-by, what cause has he to be proud?"


From the section, "Ethical"