لكلّ سفرٍ فوائده. فإن زار المسافر بلاداً أفضل، تعلّم كيف يُحسّن بلده. وإن ساقه القدر إلى بلادٍ أسوأ، تعلّم كيف يجد فيها ما يُمتع.
النص الأصلي بالإنجليزية
“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.”Samuel Johnson — The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous: to which are Now Added Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, Recently Published by Mr. Boswell, and Other Authentic Testimonies; Also His Will, and the Sermon He Wrote for the Late Doctor Dodd (1828)
