“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
“The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
“When a man's busy, why leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure: faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land
“People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something
“Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know
“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
“True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment