"The rotten apple spoils his companion...." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.”

“No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.”

“What is best for people is what they do for themselves.”

“All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.”

“To move the world we must move ourselves.”

“Have you ever noticed when you're in the presence of certain people that you feel better about yourself? Their compassionate energy has the noticeably pleasant impact of simply making you feel really good about yourself. You'll impact others with this energy of compassion as you develop your connection to intention.”

“Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.”

“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”

“No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.”