The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

New things are always ugly.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.