"Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.”

“It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.”

“You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.”

“Demand me nothing: what you know, you know.”

“Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.”

“Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.”

“There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.”

“If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.”

“English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.”