
“All things come round to him who will but wait.”
Pt. I, The Student's Tale.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)
“All things come round to him who will but wait.”
Pt. I, The Student's Tale.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)
“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”
Bk. X, ch. 16
War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)
“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
As quoted in Thomas Alva Edison : Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life (1908) by Francis Arthur Jones, p. 14.
1900s
“For no man is free who is a slave to his body.”
Nemo liber est qui corpori servit.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCII: On the Happy Life
“The slave who dances is free… while he is dancing.”
Source: Island Beneath the Sea