Hem Narayan

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray