Best 5 quotes of Isabella L. Bird on MyQuotes

Everything suggests a beyond.

In traveling, there is nothing like dissecting people's statements, which are usually colored by their estimate of the powers or likings of the person spoken to, making all reasonable inquiries, and then pertinaciously but quietly carrying out one's own plans.

I sat down and knitted for some time - my usual resource under discouraging circumstances.

Truly a good horse, good ground to gallop on, and sunshine, make up the sum of enjoyable travelling.

Yet, after all, they were not bad souls; and though he failed so grotesquely, he did his incompetent best.