"To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation”

“The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.”

“Hope is an essential constituent of human life.”

“We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.”

“It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.”

“My heart laments that virtue cannot liveOut of the teeth of emulation.”

“Men, in general, are but great children.”

“But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?”

“Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead. Rights and powers can only belong to persons, not to things, not to mere matter endowed with will...Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.”