Traveling and Leisure Quotes

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment

Seek home for rest, for home is best

A wise traveler never despises his own country

He travels the fastest who travels alone

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

In all weathers, wet or fine, it is my practice to go, towards five o’clock in the evening, to take a turn in the Palais Royal.

If the weather be too cold or too wet, I take shelter in the Regency coffee-house.

Nowhere in the world do they play chess so skilfully as in Paris, and nowhere in Paris as they do at this coffee-house.

I should like to go by the Seine to Honfleur.