Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.—­Auerbach.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. 
—­Addison.

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.—­Hillard.

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.  —­Alfred de musset.

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.—­Cowley.

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.—­Channing.

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.—­Burke.

Life.—­Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.—­Sir Humphry Davy.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies;
Life’s a short summer—­man a flower—­
He dies—­alas! how soon he dies! 

                                    —­Dr. Johnson.

Life’s but a means unto an end, that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things—­God. 
—­Bailey.

In the midst of life we are in death.—­Church burial service.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the scene of good or evil, as you make it.—­Montaigne.

Since every man who lives is born to die,
And none can boast sincere felicity,
With equal mind what happens let us bear,
Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. 

          
                          —­Dryden.

Nor love thy life nor hate; but what thou liv’st
Live well; how long or short permit to heaven. 
—­Milton.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.—­Psalm 90:10.

A handful of good life is worth a bushel of learning.—­George Herbert.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.—­Charlotte Bronte.

That man lives twice that lives the first life well.—­Herrick.

He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best; and he whose heart beats the quickest lives the longest.—­James Martineau.