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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: And go sparing;-- One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain, The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.

And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

I love to travel, But hate to arrive.

In traveling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.

One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.

The wonders of each region view, From frozen Lapland to Peru.

As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil where he is known.