There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

“THE BEAR AND THE TRAVELLERS Two Travellers were on the road together, when a Bear suddenly appeared on the scene. Before he observed them, one made for a tree at the side of the road, and climbed up into the branches and hid there. The other was not so nimble as his companion; and, as he could not escape, he threw himself on the ground and pretended to be dead. The Bear came up and sniffed all round him, but he kept perfectly still and held his breath: for they say that a bear will not touch a dead body. The Bear took him for a corpse, and went away. When the coast was clear, the Traveller in the tree came down, and asked the other what it was the Bear had whispered to him when he put his mouth to his ear. The other replied, “He told me never again to travel with a friend who deserts you at the first sign of danger.”

“The difference between the genius of the British constitution which protects and governs North America, and that of the mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in the East Indies, cannot perhaps be better illustrated than by the different state of those countries.”

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

"I am in a country which is five hours behind my beloved homeland Pakistan and my home in the Swat Valley."

"In Damascus: the traveler sings to himself: I return from Syria neither alive nor dead but as clouds that ease the butterfly’s burden from my fugitive soul"

"We journey towards a home that does not halo our head with a special sun. Mythical women applaud us. A sea for us, a sea against us."

"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."

"A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."

"He travels the fastest who travels alone."

"Travel safe and arrive happy."

"When you choose the path, you choose the destination."

"Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip."

"Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do."

"Touring is starting to feel more like home than home does."

"Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are."

"In this world, it should be easy for me to tell my travel agent Web site to make sure to update my calendar with my trip and to page my mother if my flight is going to be more than an hour late."

"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."

"He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins. A few miles teach him the fallacies of imagination. The road is dusty, the air is sultry, the horses are sluggish. He longs for the time of dinner that he may eat and rest. The inn is crowded, his orders are neglected, and nothing remains but that he devour in haste what the cook has spoiled, and drive on in quest of better entertainment. He finds at night a more commodious house, but the best is always worse than he expected."

"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 travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge."

"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."

"In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge."

"The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages."