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I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for travelling?

The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.

Your customary thoughts, all except the rarest of your friends, even most of your luggage - everything, in fact, which belongs to your everyday life, is merely a hindrance.

If you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

If I were asked to enumerate the pleasures of travel, this would be one of the greatest among them that so often and so unexpectedly you meet the best in human nature.

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.”

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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.

"Most people know very little about true justice and truth."

Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

"I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire."

Cities remain troubled until their leaders are philosophers."

One does not attack a person merely to hurt and conquer him, but perhaps merely to become conscious of one's own strength.

It was not lively enough for a pleasure trip; but if we had only had a corpse it would have made a noble funeral excursion.

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can “show off” and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can’t shake off.

Service isn't doing what's expected of us. Service is doing more than what's expected of us.

There is no abiding success without absolute commitment.

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”