"The absent are never without fault. Nor..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
More by Benjamin Franklin
More on Human Nature
“I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither.”
“Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.”
“MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes called, are the evidence with which his Creator has furnished him. ... The moral duties which exist between individual and individual in a state of nature, accompany them into a state of society ... their Maker not having released them from those duties on their forming themselves into a nation.”
More on Judgment
“Don't tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or what he submits to from his wife. Simply tell me how he makes his living. It is the safest and surest of all known tests. A man who gets his board and lodging on this ball in an ignominious way is inevitably an ignominious man.”
“Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.”
“In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.”