I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. – Benjamin Franklin
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. – Benjamin Franklin
Where theres marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. – Benjamin Franklin
Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. – Benjamin Franklin
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1