Plough deep while sluggards sleep. – Benjamin Franklin
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. – Benjamin Franklin
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. – Benjamin Franklin
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. – Benjamin Franklin
We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man