Travel and Horizons

Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

What, you are stepping westward?

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Ultima Thule.

The innocents abroad.

Sing me a song of a lad that is gone, Say, could that lad be I?

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

One should always have one’s boots on, and be ready to leave.

At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue:

Enter these enchanted woods,

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold,

Away! away! for I will fly to thee,

Travel light and you can sing in the robber’s face.

So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!

Tell me, Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered far and wide after he had sacked Troy’s sacred city, and saw the towns of many men and knew their mind.

If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your medieval hand.

If with me you’d fondly stray.

From the lone shieling of the misty island

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—