Constant dropping wears away stones

Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."