"A Brother may not be a Friend,..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.”

“God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.”

“Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.”

“The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.”

“You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.”

“Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.”

“A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.”

“Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.”

“It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.”