The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. – Benjamin Franklin
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. – Benjamin Franklin

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. – Benjamin Franklin
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. – Benjamin Franklin
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. – Benjamin Franklin
Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor. – Benjamin Franklin
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it. – Wislawa Szymborska
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves… have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. – Joseph Conrad