“He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin”

“A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin”

“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”

“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.”

“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.”

“Money has never made man happy, nor will it; There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has, the more one wants.”

“What Comfort can the Vortices of Descartes give to a Man who has Whirlwinds in his bowels!”