Service

"And Master Kingston, this I will say—had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs."

"A master is embarrassed before his servant; a servant before his master. Only in the presence of his equals is a man entirely at his ease."

"Everything in our modern substitutes for religion—whether Baconian or Rousseauistic—will be found to converge upon the idea of service. The crucial question is whether one is safe in assuming that the immense machinery of power that has resulted from activity of the utilitarian type can be made, on anything like present lines, to serve disinterested ends; whether it will not rather minister to the egoistic aims either of national groups or of individuals."

"We are his, To serve him nobly in the common cause, True to the death, but not to be his slaves."

"If I had always served God as I have served you, Madam, I should not have a great account to render at my death."

"Small service is true service while it lasts: Of humblest friends, bright Creature! scorn not one; The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew drop from the Sun."

"Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."

"We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed."

"They also serve who only stand and wait."

"My heart is ever at your service."

"God curse Moawiyah. If I had served God so well as I have served him, he would never have damned me to all eternity."

"Sidney Godolphin," said Charles (II), "is never in the way and never out of the way."