“Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.”

“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more."

(June 19, 1787)”

“One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.”

“A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.”

“Although age has its normal limits, it may be extended by two things-the study of history and by travel. Reading history broadens one's perception of the creation of the world, while travel extends one's field of vision.”

“One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.”

“Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.”

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

“Without going out of your door,
You can know all things on earth.
Without looking out of your window you could know the ways of heaven.
The farther one travels. the less one knows, the less one really knows.”

“Condorcet's Life of Turgot; a book well calculated to rouse the best sort of enthusiasm, since it contains one of the wisest and noblest of lives, delineated by one of the wisest and noblest of men.”