"People who are wrapped up in themselves..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.”

“Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.”

“Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended”

“Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.”

“One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.”

“That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.”

“Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.”

“I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)”

“We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies”