"A man is sometimes more generous when..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.”

“Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.”

“Security without liberty is called prison.”

“But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.”

“You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.”

“As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.”

“People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.”

“Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.”

“Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humor, vivacity, or the capacity for enjoyment.”