The attention of a traveller should be particularly turned in the first place to the various works of Nature to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

The stars that nature hung in heaven and filled their lamps with everlasting oil give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

All things on earth point home in old October sailors to sea travellers to walls and fences hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds the lover to the love he has forsaken.

Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

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.

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

I am not a great cook I am not a great artist but I love art and I love food so I am the perfect traveller.