Excuse me, sir; I cannot consent to receive pay for services I do not render.

—Robert E. Lee, explaining his rejection of a ten-thousand-dollar-a-year salary to act as titular head of an insurance company after the Civil War

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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

—Madame de Stael

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?… While you do not know life, how can you know about death?

Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

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