Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.