Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
-Homer
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
-Thomas Jefferson