January 22

“We shall never know what it is to live in peace, until we know what it is to love thoroughly in the present . . . We need all our energies for the fulfilment of present duties.”

GOULBURN

“There is no distinction between haste and hurry – hurry adding to rapidity the element of confusion.”

A. K. H. B.

“Unhasting, unresting diligence was the strong impression which a day’s visit at Rugby [a famous English public school] left on one of the keenest observers among English authors – and he was one of a class who, however engaged, whether in business, in writing or in travelling, was emphatically never in a hurry.”

From Life of Dr. Arnold