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There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly symbolical of human life,--now climbing the hills, now descending into the vales. From the summits he beholds the heavens and the horizon, from the vales he looks up to the heights again. He is treading his old lessons still, and though he may be very weary and travel-worn, it is yet sincere experience.

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed. In my travels I have found [the safety razor] in the most northern town in Norway and in the heart of the Sahara Desert.

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language.

There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

There's roads, and there's roads, And they call. Can't you hear it? Roads of the earth And roads of the spirit The best roads of all Are the ones that aren't certain. One of those is where you'll find me 'Til they drop the big curtain.

There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.

The roughest part of that lifestyle is the travel and early mornings.

The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.

The secret to happiness is happiness itself. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, the wonder of our breathing. We don't have to travel anywhere else to do so. We can be in touch with these things right now.

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

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

The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.

The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

The village is the place to which the roads tend, a sort of expansion of the highway, as a lake of a river.... The word is from the Latin villa, which together with via, a way, or more anciently ved and vella, Varro derives from veho, to carry, because the villa is the place to and from which things are carried.... Hence, too, the Latin word vilis and our vile, also villain. This suggests what kind of degeneracy villagers are liable to. They are wayworn by the travel that goes by and over them, without traveling themselves.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.

The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I've ever seen.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.