It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.