C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Negligence
Negligence is the rest of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
A wise and salutary neglect.
Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.
The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.
The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.
A little neglect may breed great mischief. For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.