Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
Fair and softly goes far.