"He that would live in peace and..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him.Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.”

“Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.”

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”

“Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.”

“Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.”

“The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.”

“It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.”

“Once bliss becomes normal it's no longer bliss, it's just peace.”