The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self.