"Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.”

“Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.”

“Where there is hunger, law is not regarded;and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.”

“Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.”

“Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.”

“The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For...things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.”

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

“Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.”

“I learned very early in my life never to take counsel in my fears.”