David Livingstone Quote

The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great. The effect of travel on a man whose heart is in the right place is that the mind is made more self-reliant: it becomes more confident of its own resources, there is greater presence of mind.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death (ed. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1874)