To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still

It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any

The great are great only because we are on our knees.

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

It wouldn't really do me no good. You can be bitter and do something stupid. But you've got to live, and that's the bottom line. ... It's really not going to do me any good to be mad and go off about it.

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe