The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry

More haste, less speed

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

It was very much worth it. Everything you do -- if you get a sack or a safety or a fumble or whatever - all the pain is well worth it.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.