"Be in general virtuous, and you will..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.”

“Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.”

“Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.”

“Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.”

“Without virtue, happiness cannot be.”

“The power of purity-it is a definite power.”

“The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.”

“The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.”

“Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.”