Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owning more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.

A patient man will eat ripe fruit.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

You are a fool in four letters, my son.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.