She comforts the poor and moderates the rich. She makes us humble in prosperity, cheerful in adversity, and is unmoved by reproach. She teaches us to forgive those who have injured us and to be the first in asking the forgiveness of those whom we have injured. She delights the faithful and invites the unbelieving. She adorns the woman and approves the man.
Patience is beautiful in either sex and every age.
An emotion that does not so much add to the number of joys, as it tends to diminish the number of sufferings. If life is to abound with pains and troubles by the errors and crimes of man, it is no small advantage to have a faculty that enables us to soften these pains and to improve these troubles. How powerful and extensive the influence of patience to judge, but from experience. Those who have known most bodily pain can best testify its power. In pains of the body this is the case,but more potently is it so inall mental affliction.