Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
-Jean Paul Sartre
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
-Thomas Hardy
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.