"It is hard for an empty bag..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on”

“Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.”

“He that drinks fast, pays slow.”

“Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.”

“Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.”

“At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.”

“You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.”

“For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.”

“Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.”