“It is true what people in the East say: whoever has once tasted that air returns there if he can, despite all the hardships of continual travel.”

Original: Prawda to, co powiadają ludzie wschodni, że kto raz tamtego powietrza zakosztował, to jeżeli może, nazad tam znów powraca, pomimo wszystkich niewygód ciągłej podróży. — Travel leaves an enduring longing for places that have profoundly altered one's sense of life. · Letter to his mother, 24 November 1837 (Polish)

• Longing
• Memory
• Travel

“I have worked for these five years as perhaps no man has worked before. The fruits of this work are not in books, but in living hearts and spirits.”

Original: Przez te lat pięć pracowałem tak, jak może jeszcze żaden człowiek nie pracował. Skutki tej pracy nie w księgach są, ale w żywych sercach i duchach, w które je wrzuciłem i posiałem. — He measures creative achievement by its effect on people rather than by books or reputation. · Letter to Wojciech Stattler, 25 December 1848 (Polish)

• Achievement
• Influence
• Work

“Such a life and such a journey have a strange attraction.”

Original: Życie takie i podróż taka ma dziwny powab. — The appeal of travel lies partly in its unfamiliarity and freedom from ordinary life. · Letter to his mother, 1836 (Polish)

• Adventure
• Novelty
• Travel