Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.
Benjamin FranklinYou will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.
Benjamin FranklinI think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.
Benjamin Franklin