Even kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. — Guru Nanak, Sri Guru Granth Sahib (1469-1539)

How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it. — Virginia Woolf, The Mark on the Wall (1917)