Richard Francis Burton

“Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Rou...”

“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.”

“Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.”

“One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.”

“Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.”

“I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an atten...”