Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe