Time brings a change in point of view, in temper, in state of mind which no contention can.
When you teach, make allowance for Time. What the child cannot possibly understand now, he can grasp easily a year from now.
When you have a difficult business affair to settle, give it Time, put it away and see how it will ferment, sleep on it, give it as many days as you can. It will often settle itself.
If you would produce a story, a play, a book, or an essay, write it out, then lay it aside and let it simmer, forget it a while, then take it out and write it over.
Time is the best critic, the shrewdest adviser, the frankest friend.
If you are positive you want to marry a certain person, let Time have his word. Nowhere is Time’s advice more needed. Today we may be sure, but listen to a few tomorrows.
You are born and you will die whenever fate decides; you have nothing to do with those fatal two things; but in marriage, the third fatality, you have Time. Take it.
Do not decide your beliefs and convictions suddenly. Hang up the reasons to cure. You come to permanent ideas not only by reasoning, but quite as much by growth.
Do not hobble your whole life by the immature certainties of youth. Give yourself room to change, for you must change, if you are to develop.
“Learn to labor and—to wait!”