"There is
nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in
boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your
destination or whether you reach
somewhere else, or whether you never get
anywhere at all, you're always
busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not."
Spoken by Ratty to Mole in Wind in the Willows a children's book by Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932).