People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.