Old Father Time knows more than anybody.
He solves more problems than all the brains in the world.
More hard knots are unloosed, more tangled questions are answered, more
deadlocks are unfastened by Time than by any other agency.
In the theological disputes that once raged in Christendom neither side
routed the other; Time routed them both by showing that the whole
subject did not matter.
After the contemporaries had had their say, Time crowned Homer, Dante,
Wagner, Shakespeare, Whitman, Emerson.
Almost any judgment can be appealed, but from the decision of Time there
is no appeal.
Do not force issues with your children. Learn to wait. Be patient. Time
will bring things to pass that no immediate power can accomplish.
Do not create a crisis with your husband, your wife. Wait. See what Time
will do.
Time has a thousand resources, abounds in unexpected expedients.
Time brings a change in point of view, in temper, in state of mind which
no contention can.
When you teach, make allowance for Time. What the child cannot possibly
understand now, he can grasp easily a year from now.
When you have a difficult business affair to settle, give it Time, put
it away and see how it will ferment, sleep on it, give it as many days
as you can. It will often settle itself.
If you would produce a story, a play, a book, or an essay, write it out,
then lay it aside and let it simmer, forget it a while, then take it out
and write it over.
Time is the best critic, the shrewdest adviser, the frankest friend.
If you are positive you want to marry a certain person, let Time have
his word. Nowhere is Time’s advice more needed. Today we may be sure,
but listen to a few tomorrows.
You are born and you will die whenever fate decides; you have nothing to
do with those fatal two things; but in marriage, the third fatality, you
have Time. Take it.
Do not decide your beliefs and convictions suddenly. Hang up the reasons
to cure. You come to permanent ideas not only by reasoning, but quite as
much by growth.
Do not hobble your whole life by the immature certainties of youth. Give
yourself room to change, for you must change, if you are to develop.
“Learn to labor and—to wait!”