“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.