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The Ants

«He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass»
«The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation»
«I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.»
«Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place -- service -- social service -- the ants creed, the bees creed.»
«Be on the alert, like the red ant that moves with its claws wide open. Uganda»
«There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: / The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; / The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; / The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; / The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.»
«Ants and savages put strangers to death»
«It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?»
«An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.»
«The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee . . . gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.»