“Patience is praiseworthy save in what prejudices the faith or renders sovereignty contemptible, and moderation is commendable except at the season of opportunity.”

“(Allah rendered) patience as a help for getting reward.”

“(The position of) patience in faith is like that of the head in the body, and he who has no patience has no faith.”

“what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes”

“There is a season for everything, patience will reward you and reveal all answers to your questions.”

“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.”

“Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience.”

“We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.”

“Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.”

“In order to render this change eligible as well to the society as to the slaves, it would be necessary that a complete incorporation of the latter into the former should result from the act of manumission. This is rendered impossible by the prejudices of the whites, prejudices which proceeding principally from the difference of color must be considered…”