A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

A hug is worth a thousand words.

When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man."

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.