The best travel companions double their patience in times of stress

“Tedious journeys are apt to make companions irritable one to another; but under hard circumstances, a traveler does his duty best who doubles his kindliness of manner to those about him, and takes harsh words gently, and without retort. He should make it a point of duty to do so. It is at those times very superfluous to show too much punctiliousness about keeping one’s dignity, and so forth; since the difficulty lies not in taking up quarrels, but in avoiding them.”
–Francis Galton, The Art of Travel (1872)