An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.

Publius Syrus (42 b c): Maxim 143.

  This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Good-Natured Man. Act i.

  As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.

Izaak Walton (1593-1683): The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. 1.

  I always like to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the Church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745): Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.