I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.
Benjamin FranklinMen differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.
Benjamin FranklinIn New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.
Benjamin Franklin