More From Samuel Butler
- "We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them."
- "The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it."
- "The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation."
More In Patience
- "Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears."― Barbara Johnson
- "I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow."― David Hobson
- "Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."― Hal Borland