text:  And here let me observe that I have always found that a journey in a stage-coach is remarkably favourable to the production of good resolution and sage designs for the future; which I account for partly on the ground that they cannot under such circumstances demand to be carried into immediate execution and therefore may be indulged in the more freely; and partly on this other ground that one who has become a traveller has loosened himself from his old customary moorings and so gives himself as it were a new starting-point in life from which he may if the spirit of delusion is still happily strong within him draw a mathematically straight line in the given direction A B to be the faithful index of his future career