Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther.

I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.

The faster we travel, the less there is to see.

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

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

A danger of travel is that we may see things at the wrong time, before we have had an opportunity to build up the necessary receptivity, so that new information is as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

The mind uses its creative faculty only when experience requires it.

Those with a miserable attitude rarely move the needle of the world toward progress.

On the other hand, when too much time is occupied in traveling, we become strangers to our native country; and the over curious in the customs of the past are generally ignorant of those of the present.

He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler. The difference is partly one of time, he would explain. Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another.

Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another.

It is an unfortunate fact that the bulk of humanity is too limited in its mental vision to weigh with patience and intelligence those isolated phenomena, seen and felt only by a psychologically sensitive few, which lie outside its common experience.