As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.
Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.
Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.
No man is so great as mankind.
Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
All men desire to be immortal.
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.
There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.
All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.
For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.
The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.
Science is the natural ally of religion.
Humanity is the Son of God.
Nature is God's Old Testament.
Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
The miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin had no religion at all; and it would be an insult to say that he believed in the popular theology of his time, or of ours, for I find not a line from his pen indicating any such belief.
Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.
The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.
In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.
Remorse is the pain of sin.
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