Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us;

I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.

Watch yourselves so that you don't lose what we have worked for, but you may receive a full reward. 2 John 8

Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

we all have reason to hope for happiness, but . . . we must earn it for ourselves. And that is never easy. You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness my appear attractive, bur work gives satisfaction.

Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.