"Reading was the only amusement I allowed..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.”

“Let thy discontents be thy secrets”

“One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults.”

“Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.”

“The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on.”

“We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.”

“The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself.”

“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .”

“There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.”