Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.
Benjamin FranklinWe may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.
Benjamin FranklinWe must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us.
Benjamin Franklin