"I have no private interest in the..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.”

“There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.”

“And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.”

“Selfless action is a source of strength.”

“Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.”

“Love never claims, it ever gives.”

“The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.”

“In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt the center of the gravity of the weight will stop beneath the center of its axle. No instrument devised by human ingenuity, which turns with its wheel, can remedy this effect. Oh, speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest. Go and take you place with the seekers after gold.”

“There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.”