"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.”

“Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?”

“Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.”

“We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.”

“You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.”

“When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.”

“My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.”

“I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.”

“It is awfully hard work doing nothing.”