You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.

-Hazlitt,William
Table Talk, vol.1,'The Ignorance of the Learned'.

There is a certainrelief in change, even though it be from bad toworse† Ihave oftenfound intravelling ina stage- coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

-Irving,Washington
  Tales of a Traveller,'To the Reader'.