“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”

“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.”

“If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.”

“Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.”

“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.”

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.”

“One life is an absurdly small allowance.”