“Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty s...”

“The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.”

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

“A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned”

“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”

“Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris. "Yeah, here...”

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”

“The mysterious Enoch Root meets 8-year-old Benjamin Franklin, Boston, 1713: "Do I look like a schoolmaster to you?" "No, but you talk like one." "You know something of schoolmasters, do you?""Yes, ...”

“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”

“There is a story that Simonides was dining at the house of a wealthy nobleman named Scopas at Crannon in Thessaly, and chanted a lyric poem which he had composed in honor of his host, in which he f...”

“But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.”

“To reciprocate Gods love is to have his love nature”

“If you can't change your mind, you can't change anything.”

“Optimists think badly, but live well.”