To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

The more stitches, the less riches.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.