The words of the wise are as goads. Pr.
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity. Jean Paul.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden under ground, secretly making the ground green; it flows and flows, it joins itself with other veins and veinlets; one day it will start forth as a visible perennial well. Carlyle.
The work of righteousness shall be peace. Bible.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. Ruskin.
The works of the great poets have only been read for most part as the multitude read the stars, at most, astrologically, not astronomically. Thoreau.
The world can never give / The bliss for which we sigh; / 'Tis not the whole of life to live, / Nor all of death to die. Montgomery.
The world cannot be governed without juggling. 5 Selden.
The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world. Goethe.
The world considers eccentricity in great things genius: in small things, folly. Bulwer Lytton.