St. Jerome

“Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!”

“Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.”

“A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.”

“Haste is of the Devil.”

“Virginity can be lost by a thought.”

“Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.”

“What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.”