Isabella L. Bird

“Everything suggests a beyond.”

“In traveling, there is nothing like dissecting people's statements, which are usually colored by their estimate of the powers or likings of the person spoken to, making all reasonable inquiries, and then pertinaciously but quietly carrying out one's own plans.”

“Truly a good horse, good ground to gallop on, and sunshine, make up the sum of enjoyable travelling.”

“I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.”

“I sat down and knitted for some time - my usual resource under discouraging circumstances.”