Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless.

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be thy duty. Thy second duty will already have become clear.

We are supposed to do something for our kind.

The best way to get rid of unpleasant duties is to discharge them faithfully.

There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they heart hither.

Do well the duty that lies before you.

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

Do your duty, and leave the rest to the gods.

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?

God obligeth no man to more than he hath given him ability to perform.