Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread....

He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.

We do not have to see the beginning and the end of our lives, but we must close our eyes and live as if we didn’t start or would never end.

As to the fragments of morality that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those books [the Bible], they make no part of this pretended thing, revealed religion. They are the natural dictates of conscience, and...

Conquer with forbearanceThe excesses of insolence.