"Bad gains are true losses...." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.”

“If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.”

“You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.”

“The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.”

“He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as well as by application. It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics. The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical.”

“These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.”

“And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.”

“If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.”

“Image is what people think we are. Integrity is what we really are.”