“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.
“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
“We travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea