"Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance,..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.”

“Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.”

“Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.”

“I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.”

“One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.”

“There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.”

“Vision without execution is daydreaming.”

“A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.”

“To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.”