A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
Good servants frequently make good masters.
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but no person at all need be a servant.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.