A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. – Benjamin Franklin
If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend. – Benjamin Franklin
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. – Benjamin Franklin
A mere compilation of facts presents only the skeleton of History; we do but little for her if we cannot invest her with life, clothe her in the habiliments of her day, and enable her to call forth the sympathies of succeeding generations. – Hannah Farnham Lee, The Huguenots in France and America