Famous quotes containing the words free and/or labor:
“If the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes.... But in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is.”
—Bible: New Testament (RSV)
“When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)