It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.