The highway is never about. [ Proverb ]

Grass grows not on the highway. [ Proverb ]

Gold lies deep in the mountain, but dirt on the highway. [ German Proverb ]

He that leaves the highway to cut short, commonly goes about. [ Proverb ]

He that sows in the highway tires his oxen, and loses his corn. [ Proverb ]

Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the center of that. There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has force in it; how else could it rot? [ Carlyle ]

Albeit failure in any cause produces a correspondent misery in the soul, yet it is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully eschew. [ Keats ]