Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.

Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots read more

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become read more

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other read more

The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. read more

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or read more

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.