In Praeterita Ruskin was to recall that he had based his early prose style upon Johnson and the Bible, John James Ruskin always including four small volumes of Johnson's Idler and Rambler essays in their luggage as the family set off on its annual summer holiday touring Europe ( Works, 35.225). In his autobiography Ruskin admitted that although he had never considered Johnson as one of the 'really great authors' whom he loved, he recognized in him a man 'entirely sincere, and infallibly wise in the view and estimate he gave of the common questions, business, and ways of the world' ( Works, 35.225).