“Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.”

“Great souls endure in silence.”

“Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.”

“The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

“Not deep his sorrow who in silence grieves.”

“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow”

“Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.”

“Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.”

“Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.”

“… happiness is not for this world — a conviction that cannot be too soon acquired : it will destroy a thousand vain expectations, dissipate the most perplexing of our illusions — the early knowledge that life is but a trial, whose triumph is hereafter, and this earth a place appointed for that sorrow and patient endurance which is gradually fitting us for a better and a happier state.”