Perfected reason is truly the tardiest of human endowments, but it can never be perfected at all unless the process be begun, and, within limits, the sooner the beginning is made, the earlier will be the ripening.
"Rousseau Volumes I. and II."
John Morley
Those who run and keep together have to run at the pace of the tardiest.
"Essays"
Alice Meynell
They agree with him, and separate, even the tardiest guest having disappeared by this time, with a last assurance of how intensely they have enjoyed their evening; though when they reach their chambers a few of them give way to such despair and disappointment as rather gives the lie to their expressions of pleasure.
"Molly Bawn"
Margaret Wolfe Hamilton