In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes.