"Mankind are dastardly when they meet with..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

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

“Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!”

“He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.”

“We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!”

“The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length, and not remember spite. He has neither friends nor enemies, but values men only as channels of power.”

“Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.”

“The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!”

“I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”

“Friends create the world anew each day.Without their loving care, courage would notsuffice to keep heartsstrong for life.”