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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans --which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home? (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Travel is a fools paradise. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse (Seton Ernest Thompson)
The fool wanders, a wise man travels. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
A wise traveler never depreciates their own country. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Your true traveler 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. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins. A few miles teach him the fallacies of imagination. The road is dusty, the air is sultry, the horses are sluggish. He longs for the time of dinner that he may eat and rest. The inn is crowded, his orders are neglected, and nothing remains but that he devour in haste what the cook has spoiled, and drive on in quest of better entertainment. He finds at night a more commodious house, but the best is always worse than he expected. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
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