Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.
Benjamin FranklinNor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her laws; 'tis enough to know the Laws themselves.
Benjamin FranklinThank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?
Benjamin Franklin