C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Celerity

Celerity is the lazy man’s enemy.

R. Lowe.

Celerity wins the race.

Sir John Astley.

Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.

Shakespeare.

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity; like the motion of a bullet in the air, it flies so swift that it outruns the eye.

Bacon.

The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

Beaconsfield.