6 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Travel

Samuel Johnson quotes on travel

34. Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind, from China to Peru.

87. The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.

105. The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

145. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

166. 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.

175. Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.