The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him. N.B.: From this quote is derived the proverb, Good things come to those who wait. – Bible
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. – Thomas Aquinas
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. – Walter Savage Landor