I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. – Benjamin Franklin
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. – Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. – Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall hang separately. – Benjamin Franklin
Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel. – Maturin M. Ballou, January 1886, preface to Edge-Tools of Speech