Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.

If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her.

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.