It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience. – Horace Bushnell
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves. – Horace Bushnell
Patience is better than wisdom: an ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. All men praise patience, but few enough can practise it; it is a medicine which is good for all diseases, and therefore every old woman recommends it; but it is not every garden that grows the herbs to make it with. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834–1892), “On Patience” (John Ploughman)