Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to read more

Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.

Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and read more

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.

Nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Nothing is more vulgar than haste.

I go, I go, look how I go,
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.

I go, I go, look how I go,
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.