“Break the monotony. Do something strange and extravagant!”

“When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.”

“All summer it feels as if it will rain soon. All summer the strange feeling, 'something will break.”

“Adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks with a sound like song.”

“Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.”

“The joy of travel does not lie in reaching the destination, but in the companions met with on the journey, the changing scenery through which the traveller passes, and even the inconveniences that break up the monotony of the ordinary routine life.”