“but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.”

“The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.”

“This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.”

“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”

“Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.”

“It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause”

“This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.”

“Patience is a virtue,
Virtue is a grace.
Grace is a little girl
Who would not wash her face.”

“That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.”

“Patience is the vehicle to determination, the mother of endurance..”