The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

Patience was not my strong point.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean there's a certain patience a certain discipline I think that religion helps you achieve.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue where patience honor sweet humility and calm fortitude take root and strongly flourish.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian were not nature too strong for it.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

It is the nature and the advantage of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body it gives boldness enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.