"A traveler's chief aim should be to..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift

“There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.”

“If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.”

“Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.”

“It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.”

“A travel agent told I could spend 7 nights in HAWAII no days just nights.”

“In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.”

“Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.”

“What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!”

“The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.”