“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
“Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels
“The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
“We travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land