Many classes are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the area of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the springtide of their hopes!—C. Bingham.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.—William Penn.
The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; the future, the virgin's.—Richter.
Patience.—He that can have patience can have what he will.—Franklin.
Patience! why, it is the soul of peace; of all the virtues, it is nearest kin to heaven; it makes men look like gods. The best of men that ever wore earth about him was a sufferer,—a soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; the first true gentleman that ever breathed.—Decker.
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.—Addison.
If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.—Madame de Sévigné.
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.—Buffon.
There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.—Burke.
We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.—Marie Ebner-Eschenbach.