5 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Travel

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on travel

14. Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

106. Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.

143. Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

195. The world is his, who has money to go over it.

198. All educated Americans, first or last, go to Europe.