"You don't get somebody to like you..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.”

“Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.”

“It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.”

“All our dignity lies in our thoughts.”

“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”

“One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes.”

“When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.”

“Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over, then people begin to remember how it was when it ran, and they want it to run again.”

“The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing to say about Friends. They mean associates and confidants merely.”