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Benjamin Franklin: At twenty years...

Benjamin Franklin: At twenty years...

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.

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Benjamin Franklin: A false friend...

Benjamin Franklin: A false friend...

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Source: In Webster's...

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Benjamin Franklin: If you persuade,...

Benjamin Franklin: If you persuade,...

If you persuade, speak of interest, not reason.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Benjamin Franklin: Search others for...

Benjamin Franklin: Search others for...

Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Benjamin Franklin: I think that...

Benjamin Franklin: I think that...

I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for...

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Benjamin Franklin: An investment in...

Benjamin Franklin: An investment in...

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Source:
-- Benjamin...

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Benjamin Franklin: Be sober and...

Benjamin Franklin: Be sober and...

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be...

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Benjamin Franklin: Be studious in...

Benjamin Franklin: Be studious in...

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be...

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Benjamin Franklin: Idleness and pride...

Benjamin Franklin: Idleness and pride...

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

Source: In...

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G C Lichtenberg: The second sight...

G C Lichtenberg: The second sight...

The second sight possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe...

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G C Lichtenberg: To receive applause...

G C Lichtenberg: To receive applause...

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our...

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G C Lichtenberg: The sure conviction...

G C Lichtenberg: The sure conviction...

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are...

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Martin H Fischer: Research has been...

Martin H Fischer: Research has been...

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: All experience is...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: All experience is...

All experience is an arch wherethro'
Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Claspt hands and...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Claspt hands and...

Claspt hands and that petitionary grace
Of sweet seventeen subdued me ere she spoke.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Dear as remembered...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Dear as remembered...

Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd
On lips that are for others:...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For men may...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For men may...

For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.


Source: The Brook,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Every moment dies...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Every moment dies...

Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

Source: 'The Vision of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Gorgonised me from...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Gorgonised me from...

Gorgonised me from head to foot,
With a stony British stare.


Source: Maud, pt....

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Home they brought...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Home they brought...

Home they brought her warrior dead.
She nor swoon'd, nor utter'd cry:
All her maidens, watching said,
'She...

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