Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes on Travel

5 quotes

  1. For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

  2. Already and old man, he [Samuel Johnson] ventured on his Highland tour; and his heart, bound with triple brass, did not recoil before twenty-seven individual cups of tea.

  3. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

  4. Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I ask, the heaven above And the road below me.

  5. The untented Kosmos my abode, I pass, a wilful stranger: My mistress still the open road And the bright eyes of danger.

    #61 Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

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