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

I never was lost. I was bewildered right bad once for as much as a week, but not lost.

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

There are sultry days in July and August when the [Italian] cities, emptied by the natives, are almost completely taken over by the swarms of dusty and perspiring foreigners.

In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.

Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."