Samuel Johnson on the merits of traveling light

“We found in the course of our journey the conveniences of having disencumbered ourselves, by laying aside whatever we could spare; for it is not to be imagined without experience, how in climbing crags, and treading bogs, and winding through narrow and obstructed passages, a little bulk will hinder, and a little weight will burthen; or how often a man that has pleased himself at home with his own resolution, will, in the hours of darkness and fatigue, be content to leave behind him everything but himself.”
–Samuel Johnson, The Journey to the Western Islands Scotland (1775)