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.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair read more

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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.

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it read more

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.