"A nod from a lord is a..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.”

“Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.”

“I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick, their memory as strong, and their docility in every respect equal to that of white children.”

“Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.”

“The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.”

“For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.”

“An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.”

“Things are often spoke and seldom meant.”

“There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding”