"Virtue may not always make a Face..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”

“What's a Sun-Dial in the shade?”

“Reckless haste makes poor speed.”

“Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.”

“Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.”

“When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.”

“The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.”

“I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism -- a human being is exercising extremism -- in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner.”

“If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.”