"After crosses and losses men grow humbler..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.”

“A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.”

“Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.”

“Every lion has a time in their life when a thorn has got to them at one point.”

“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.”

“Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.”

“To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge.”

“It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old are weak, feel their mortality, and think that they have measured the strength of man. They will not boast; they will be frank and humble. Well, let them have the few poor comforts they can keep. Humility is still a very human virtue. They look back on life, and so see not into the future. The prospect of the young is forward and unbounded, mingling the future with the present.”

“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge.”