The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

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 journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control 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.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

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

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

Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway.

Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway.

Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.

Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.