“everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.”

“Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

“Time and Patience.”

“A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there is nothing on earth more splendid and interesting than himself.”

“Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force.”