“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”

“In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixed—in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter.”

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”

“The end of a matter is better than its beginning; patience of spirit is better than haughtiness of spirit.”

“One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.”

“When God's Spirit descends, then Patience accompanies Him indivisibly.”
Cum ergo spiritus Dei descendit, indiuidua patientia comitatur eum.

“Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed
A fairer spirit or more welcome shade.”

“The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.”

“To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.”

“Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!”