"It is much easier to suppress a..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach,the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.”

“He that's content hath enough.”

“He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.”

“At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.”

“Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.”

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”

“Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as if the people there had fallen alseep, she thought; were free like smoke, were free to come and go like ghosts. They have no suffering there, she thought.”

“If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.”

“The total mental efficiency of a man is the resultant of the working together of all his faculties. He is too complex a being for any one of them to have the casting vote. If any one of them do have the casting vote, it is more likely to be the strength of his desire and passion, the strength of the interest he takes in what is proposed. Concentration, memory, reasoning power, inventiveness, excellence of the senses, all are subsidiary to this.”