Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the worst in reckless defiance; the plurality, in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands.
John RuskinModern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
John RuskinThat which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin
John Ruskin