Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.
He who begs timidly courts a refusal.
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.