Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it.

Men must work, and women must weep.

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.