“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit ”

“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”

“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. ”

“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it”