There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great Soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. In the realm of nature, every thing has been wrought out in the august consciousness of infinite leisure; and I bless God for that geology which gives me a key to the patience in which the creative process was effected.

Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.

I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.