We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.
Source: The Margin of Hesitation, Thinking It Through in Haste, 1921.
-- Frank Moore Colby, (Feb 10 1865-1925), US encyclopedia editor, essayist; His collection of essays, The Colby Essays, 1921, includes On Seeing Ten Bad Plays and Trials of an Encyclopedist.