Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.
If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.
Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.
Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.
The workmanship was better than the subject matter.
When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.