Among the numerous luxuries of the table…coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions…is never followed by sadness, languor or debility. – Benjamin Franklin
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. – Benjamin Franklin
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. – Benjamin Franklin
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. – Benjamin Franklin
The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit. – George Mikes