“A patient man gets all that he waits for.”

“It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.”

“I haven't always been a patient man...but something tells me you'd be worth the wait.”

“A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient; nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in a fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient; and looking upon them only as sick and extravagant.”

“He is not truly patient who will only suffer as far as seems right to him and from whom he pleases. The truly patient man considers not by whom he is tried, one above him, or by an equal, or by an inferior, whether by a good and holy man or by a perverse and unworthy, but from every creature. He gratefully accepts all from the hand of God and counts it gain.”

“Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.”