Benjamin Franklin

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.