One never goes so far as when one doesn't know
where one is going.

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Maxims and Reflections, edited by Peter Hutchinson, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Penguin Classics, 1999, no. 281.

Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 2, st. 76.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold. Venus in Furs, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Penguin Classics, 2000.