"Great talkers should be cropt, for they've..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.”

“Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.”

“One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.”

“The words you've bandied are sufficient;'Tis deeds that I prefer to see.[Ger., Der Worte sind genug gewechselt,Lasst mich auch endlich Thaten sehn.]”

“What we think about and talk about expands into action.”

“Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”

“Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.”

“Great talkers are little doers.”

“The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.”