It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.
Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.
The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.
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
Remorse is the pain of sin.
I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.
Nature is God's Old Testament.
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.
Science is the natural ally of religion.
Humanity is the Son of God.
The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.
Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.
The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.
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.
Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.
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.
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
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.
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.
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