grades will be the most arduous, and as such, the most noble achievement of a thoroughly accomplished humanity. --PROF. BLACKIE. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Forgiveness and patience, kindness and equableness, truthfulness and uprightness, restraint of the senses and energy, gentleness and modesty, and gravity, generosity and calmness, contentment, kindliness of speech, and absence of hatred and malice-these together make up self-control.* -"MAHABHARATA." What need has he who subjugates himself -"MAHABHARATA." • From Lectures by Max Müller. † From Indian Wisdom by Monier Williams, 108. PATIENCE. Patience is a plaster for all sores. Patience is the best remedy for grief. -PROVERB. Patience is the remedy for him who has no remedy (against a calamity). -ARABIC PRoverb. Patience is the key to joy. -ARABIC PROVERB. Every business turns out well, but with patience. -PERSIAN PROVERE. The fruit of patience is successful victory. -ARABIC PROVERB. Be patient if thou wouldst thy ends accomplish, -BHARAVI. Patience gives victory over difficulties, patience gives hope to the hopeless; by patience imperishable treasures are obtained, by patience stone is turned into * From Indian Wisdom by Monier Williams. diamonds, by patience innumerable dangers are avoided: all locks can be opened with the key of patience.* * --M. C. MUNSOOKH. Patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude and the rarest too. Patience lies at the root of all pleasures as well as of all powers. Hope itself ceases to be happiness, when impatience companions her. --JOHN RUSKIN. shows a still higher The wise should recollect that every event of life must be borre with patience, but it character to anticipate and prevent it is not less noble to bear them with they have overtaken us. coming evils though fortitude when -- CICERO. All things come round to him who will but wait. Of all the lessons that humanity has to learn in life's school, the hardest is to learn to wait. Not to wait with the folded hands that claim life's prizes without previous effort, but having struggled and crowded the slow years with trial, see no such result as effort seems to warrant--nay perhaps disaster instead. To stand firm at such a crisis of existence, to preserve one's self-poise and self-respect, not to lose hold or to relax effort, this is greatness, whether achieved by man or woman. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life step by step. De Maistry says that "to know how to wait is the great secret of success." We must sow before we can reap and often have to wait long, content meanwhile to look patiently forward in hope; the fruit best worth waiting. for often ripening the slowest. But "time and patience," says the Eastern proverb, "change the Mulberry leaf to Satin." Nothing in the world teaches patience like a garden. You may go around and watch the opening bud from day to day; but it takes its own time, and you cannot urge it on faster than it will. If forced, it is only uprooted and destroyed. All the best results of a garden, like those of life, are slowly but regularly and surely progressive. What cannot be cured must be endured. -PROVERB. Alcibiades, being astonished at Socrates' patience, asked him how he could endure the perpetual scolding of his wife? Why said he, as those do, who are accustomed to the ordinary noise of wheels to draw water. Resignation superadds to patience a submissive disposition respecting the intelligent cause of our uneasiness. It acknowledges both the power and the right of a superior to inflict. -COGAN. The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him. -ADDISON. Patience! why, 'tis the soul of peace: Of all the virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven; |