everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all. - Leo Tolstoy

But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self

Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.