A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

travel (verb) see BAD news travels fast; it is BETTER to travel hopefully than to arrive.
He TRAVELS fastest who travels alone
Cf. 1854 H. D. THOREAU Walden 78 The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

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  1888 R. KIPLING Story of Gadsby (1889) 94 Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone. 1921 E. WAUGH Journal 19 June in Diaries (1979) 129 Hale’s gone already. I suppose he will have to. ‘He travels fastest who travels alone’ anyway. 1989 F. KING Reflections in Jaundiced Eye iv. The reason I can ‘do what I do’ is because I’ve never married. He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. "efficiency and ineffiency; independence; travel
  

tread see FOOLS rush in where angels fear to tread.
As a TREE falls, so shall it lie
One must not change long-established beliefs, etc., in the face of death. With allusion to ECCLESIASTES xi. 3 (AV) If the tree fall toward the South, or toward the North, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

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  1549 H. LATIMER Seven SermonsIV. M3^V Wheresoeuer the tre falleth.. there it shall reste. 1578 LYLY Euphues I. 308 Where the tree falleth there it lyeth.. and every ones deathes daye is his domes day. 1678 J. RAY English Proverbs (ed. 2) 296 As a man lives so shall he die, As a tree falls so shall it lie. 1836 M. SCOTT Cruise of Midge II. ii. It is of no use. .. As the tree falls, so must it lie—it is a part of my creed. 1937 ‘F. HEDLEY’ Cavalier of Crime x. 130 ‘No use trying to account for the vagaries of fate, is it, Inspector? Where the tree falleth, there shall it lie.’ "death; fate and fatalism