Standing with reluctant feet,
Where the brook and river meet,
Womanhood and childhood fleet! [ Longfellow ]

How fleet is a glance of the mind!
Compared with the speed of its flight.
The tempest itself lags behind,
And the swift-winged arrows of light. [ Cowper ]

Alas, by what rude fate
Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet.
Then part forever on their courses fleet. [ E. C. Stedman ]

Passionate men like fleet hounds are apt to over-run the scent. [ Proverb ]

Columbus died in utter ignorance of the true nature of his discovery. He supposed he had found India, but never knew how strangely God had used him. So God piloted the fleet. The great discoverer, with all his heroic virtues, did not know whither he went. He sailed for the back door of Asia, and landed at the front door of America, and knew it not. He never settled the continent. Thus far and no farther, said the Lord. His providence was over all. [ David James Burrell ]