I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.

Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Travelling. This makes men wiser, but less happy.

In traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.

A tourist is an ugly human being.