"As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in travelling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge."

"That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet."

"I stared at this earnest young black man for a moment. Suddenly my hair became very political. Waves of horror washed over me. How many forms of religious persecution are we now going to visit upon one another as black people in the name of our public safety? And suppose I was a Rastafarian? What then? Why did that automatically mean I could not vacation in Virgin Gorda? Did it make my tourist dollars unusable?"

"The true delight of travel, the one that is going to print itself unaccountably and indelibly on you, seems to prefer to come as a thief in the night, and not at the hours you specially fix for its entertainment."

"Though they carry nothing forth with them, yet in all their journey they lack nothing. For wheresoever they come, they be at home."

"A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not: but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place..."

"This ambiance of candlelight reminds of nights that traveled its way, in entangled embrace of yours and mine."

"I was feeling like mad by the melody of birds singing out of tune in the settlements where travels lose their own destinations"

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."

"Say, (O Muhammad), "Travel through the land and observe how He began creation. Then God will produce the final creation. Indeed Allah, over all things, is competent.""

"Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason which set you wandering is ever at your heels."

"When I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content."

"And in his brain, Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd With observation, the which he vents In mangled forms."

"The sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness."

"Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country."

"Travell'd gallants, That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors."

"I spake of most disastr'us chances, * * * * Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence And portance in my travellers' history; Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak—such was the process;— And of the cannibals that each other eat."

"In your journey, be prepared to encounter an array of obstacles – some steep, some flat – for that's the nature of the path."

"After reaching an easy path, the walking stick should not be discarded."

"Travel has always served to inspire me, as it has many writers, as it apparently did my alter ego; yet the farther we proceeded down the Mekong, the more I came to realize that there was a blighted sameness to the world and its various cultures. Strip away their trappings and you found that every tribe was moved by the same passions, and this was true not only in the present but also, I suspected, in ages past. Erase from your mind the images of the kings and exotic courtesans and maniacal monks that people the legends of Southeast Asia, and look to a patch of ground away from the temples and palaces of Angkor Wat—there you will find the average planetary citizen, a child eating the Khmer equivalent of a Happy Meal and longing for the invention of television."

"All journeys end in disappointment if for no other reason than that they end."

"To travel hopefully is better than to arrive."

"I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water."

"A rolling stone gathers no moss."

"Not all those who wander are lost."

"Some people feel more alive when they travel and visit unfamiliar places or foreign countries because at those times sense perception – experiencing – takes up more of heir consciousness than thinking. They become more present. Others remain completely possessed by the voice in the head even then. Their perceptions and experiences are distorted by instant judgments. They haven't really gone anywhere. Only their body is traveling, while they remain where they have always been: in their head. p. 144"

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

"Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter."

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."

"The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere."

"The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism."

"Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him."

"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel."

"He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest."

"One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way."

"Cœlum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt. Strenua nos exercet inertia, navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere; quod petis hic est."

"I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay."

"The wonders of each region view, From frozen Lapland to Peru."

"Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life."

"Follow the Romany Patteran Sheer to the Austral light, Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind, Sweeping the sea floors white."

"Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone."

"The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey."

"Better sit still where born, I say, Wed one sweet woman and love her well, Love and be loved in the old East way, Drink sweet waters, and dream in a spell, Than to wander in search of the Blessed Isles, And to sail the thousands of watery miles In search of love, and find you at last On the edge of the world, and a curs'd outcast."

"We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl, We progress, and we prog from pole to pole."

"Qui veut voyager loin ménage sa monture."