"Look round the habitable world, how few..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”

“In success be moderate.”

“There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.”

“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”

“Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike oak-trees to the centre, round which all arrange themselves the best they can. But the old statesman knows that society is fluid; there are no such roots and centres; but any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement, and compel the system to gyrate round it, as every man of strong will, like Pisistratus, or Cromwell, does for a time, and every man of truth, like Plato, or Paul, does forever.”

“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”

“To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge.”

“Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.”

“It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.”