The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. – Benjamin Franklin
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances. – Benjamin Franklin
Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries. – Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. – Benjamin Franklin
I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness… Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour. – Richard Eyre