"He is ill clothed that is bare..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.”

“Mankind are very odd creatures:one half censure what they practice,the other half practice what they censure;the rest always say and do as they ought.”

“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”

“The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.”

“How poor are they that have have not patients.”

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

“The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.”

““Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?”

“Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.”