Haste is needful in a desperate case. [ William Shakespeare ]

Generous as brave.
Affection, kindness, and the sweet office
Of love and duty, were to him as needful
As his daily bread. [ Rogers ]

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy. [ Helen Jackson ]

The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort.
Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,
Give truth a lustre and make wisdom smile. [ Cowper ]

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred. [ L. E. Landon ]

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. [ Lowell ]

Two misfortunes are twice as many at least as are needful to be talked over at one time. [ Sterne ]

Nature fashions no creature without implanting in it the strength needful for its action and duration. [ Carlyle ]

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book or a friend. [ George MacDonald ]

The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order. [ Beecher ]

The capacity of apprehending what is high is very rare; and therefore, in common life a man does well to keep such things for himself, and only to give out so much as is needful to have some advantage against others. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

When the first time of love is over, there comes a something better still; then comes that other love; that faithful friendship which never changes, and which will accompany you with its calm light through the whole of life; it is only needful to place yourself so that it may come, and then it comes of itself; and then everything turns and changes itself for the best. [ Frederika Bremer ]