"Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.”

“Industry need not wish.”

“Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day.”

“To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it is with man. A hundred years ago they sold bark in our streets peeled from our own woods. In the very aspect of those primitive and rugged trees there was, methinks, a tanning principle which hardened and consolidated the fibres of men's thoughts. Ah! already I shudder for these comparatively degenerate days of my native village, when you cannot collect a load of bark of good thickness, and we no longer produce tar and turpentine.”

“But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.”

“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”

“The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.”

“There is no learning without remembering.”

“History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.”