Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way.
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.
Haste is good only in catching fleas.
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.