“I travelled alone, in spite of the civilities of other tramps, who desired company, so as to allow no strange voice to disturb my dreams.”

Presenting solitude as a necessary shelter for imagination · Autobiography, The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

• Hope
• Solitude

“When I suffered most from lack of rest, or bodily sustenance—as my actual experience became darker, the thoughts of the future became brighter, as the stars shine to correspond with the night's shade.”

Finding hope growing stronger as present circumstances became darker · Autobiography, The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

• Despair
• Hope

“What I like so much about meeting these strange people on the Open Road, is their plain and simple characters, which can be known, as a rule, in a few short hours.”

Valuing the openness and immediacy he found among fellow travellers · Autobiography, Later Days

• Friendship
• Solitude
• Truth