“Death is the privilege of human natureAnd life without it were not worth our takingThither the poor, the unfortunate, and MournerFly for relief & lay their burdens down.”

“Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.”

“We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all...that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys that make it worth living and also worth giving...and that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.”

“He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.”

“Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of thefoot as in the laying of it down”

“Before long, unfortunately, she began to be jealous herself, and Tomas saw her jealousy not as a Nobel Prize, but as a burden, a burden he would be saddled with until not long before his death.”