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"Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me."
"Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand."
"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."
"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."
"It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly."
"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road."
"Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability."
"Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering."
"According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
"Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return."
"Nature is the art of God."
"Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty."
"NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself."
"I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from."
"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."
"It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport."
"The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes."