"Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.”

“[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.”

“He that would travel much, should eat little.”

“The less said the better.”

“Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.”

“Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed”

“By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible.”

“I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.”

“Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.”