Samuel Johnson Quotes on Travel
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Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind, from China to Peru.
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The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
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As the Spanish proverb says, 'He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
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Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.