"Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh — that is to say, over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of sickness, of isolation, and of death. There is no serious piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage."

"Haste makes waste."

"You can't hurry an oxcart. (If you lose your temper and shout, the oxen get confused and slow down.)"

"Whatever is produced in haste goes easily to waste."

"Festinatio tarda est."

"On wings of winds came flying all abroad."

"Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner."

"Le trop de promptitude à l'erreur nous expose."

"Haste is of the Devil."

"Sat cito, si sat bene."

"I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon."

"Then horn for horn they stretch and strive; Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive."

"Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation."

"Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry."

"Wisely, and slow; they stumble that run fast."

"It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say "It lightens.""

"He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder."

"Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow."

"Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once."

"Nay, but make haste; the better foot before."

"Celerity is never more admired Than by the negligent."

"Quod evenit in labyrintho properantibus; ipsa illos velocitas inplicat."

"La hastiveté se donne elle mesme la jambe."

"He who hurries through life hurries to his grave."

"The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing that we ought to do, we have no time for anything else—we are the busiest people in the world."

"Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste, Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste."

"Saber repartir su vida a lo discreto: no como se vienen las ocasiones, sino por providencia y delecto."

"My mistake has too often been that of too much haste. But it is not the people’s way to hurry, nor is it God’s way either. Hurry means worry, and worry effectually drives the peace of God from the heart."

"Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence."

"The more haste, ever the worst speed."

"Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily."

"Hâtez-vous lentement ; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le métier remettez votre ouvrage."

"Festina lente."

"And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man."

"Lambendo effingere."

"Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch Till the white-wing'd reapers come."

"Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping."

"Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn. Es wächst der Mensch mit seinen grössern Zwecken."

"Post id, frumenti quum alibi messis maxima'st Tribus tantis illi minus reddit, quam obseveris. Heu! istic oportet obseri mores malos, Si in obserendo possint interfieri."

"Fungino genere est: capite se totum tegit."

"Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia retroversus crescit tanquam coda vituli."

""Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger than the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous…. He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself … by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis."

"Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their cubs into shape."

"And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay."

"Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend."

"Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain."

"It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it falls and die that night— It was the plant and flower of Light."

"The lofty oak from a small acorn grows."

"Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked."

"Treading beneath their feet all visible things, As steps that upwards to their Father's throne Lead gradual."