For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

All men desire to be immortal.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

The miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin had no religion at all; and it would be an insult to say that he believed in the popular theology of his time, or of ours, for I find not a line from his pen indicating any such belief.

I believe in the admission of women to the full rights of citizenship and share in government, on the express grounds that few women keep house so badly or with such wastefulness as chancellors of the exchequer keep the state.

It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.