I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.