Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter

Virtue is like precious odours,- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house.

The surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them.