Harvard Classics Quotes

“396. Patience is a Virtue every where; but it shines with great Lustre in the Men of Government.

397. Some are so Proud or Testy, they won't hear what they should redress.

398. Others so weak, they sink or burst under the weight of their Office, though they can lightly run away with the Salary of it.”
― William Penn "Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims"