Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort
- Ariel NishriFriendship is not always the sequel of obligation
- Samuel JohnsonWe are always much better pleased to see those whom we have obliged, than those who have obliged us
- Janet WatsonOur duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future
- John RuskinEach and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence
- Kathleen NorrisHe loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke
- Robert HerrickMost men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent
- William Gilmore Simms