"Life's Tragedy is that we get old..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

“The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.”

“Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.”

“Love that endures, from life that disappears!”

“After a long day of trying, to make my songs pay, making love all day against the wall in the hallway.”

“When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”

“Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.”

“Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.”

“Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.”