Who does not remember Oxenstiern’s remark to his son, who trembled at going so young to the congress of Munster: “Go, my son. You will...

William Digby: Journal, July 24-October 13, 1777 …but alas! This life is a constant rotation of changes; and the man, who forms the...

Abigail Adams to John Adams Posterity who are to reap the Blessings, will scarcely be able to conceive the Hardships and Sufferings of...

Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, Number 1: I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow...

Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, Number 1 There is a natural firmness in some minds which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which,...

Benjamin Franklin to Lord Howe: To me it seems that neither the obtaining or retaining of any Trade, how valuable soever, is an Object...

no mortal existed now, nor would ever exist, who did not have a mixture of adversity in his life from the moment of his birth; indeed the...

Herordotus comments on importance of cupbearer in Persia: "as a cup bearer to the King, an office of considerable honor." Herodotus. The...

The worst excuse a soldier can make for declining service is that he once ranked the commander he is ordered to report to. Grant, Ulysses...

The appointment seemed to support Grant’s own assertion that “it is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may...

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all....

Rule of conduct of Admiral Lord Fisher: ‘Moderation in war is folly. If you strike, strike hard and wherever you can.’ Churchill, Winston...

Doing an Injury puts you below your Enemy; Revenging one makes you but even with him; Forgiving it sets you above him. Franklin,...

Presumption first blinds a Man, then sets him a running. Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings. The Library...

The proof of gold is fire, the proof of woman, gold; the proof of man, a woman. Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography, Poor Richard, and...

The poor have little, beggars none, the rich too much, enough not one. Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later...

Eat to live, and not live to eat. Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings. The Library of America. New York,...

I do not oppose all that seem wrong, for the Multitude are more effectually set right by Experience, than kept from going wrong by...

Nothing is more likely to endanger the liberty of the press, than the abuse of that liberty, by employing it in personal accusation,...

“Corrupt People Always Believe Accusations of Corruptness” Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings. The...

It is the persisting in an Error, not the Correcting it that lessens the Honour of any Man or body of Men. Franklin, Benjamin....

Advice to younger Friends. Treat your Wife always with Respect. It will procure Respect to you, not from her only, but from all that...

you may remember an Ancient Poet whose Words we have all Studied and Copy’d at School said, long ago, A Man of Words and not of Deeds, Is...

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it? Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography, Poor Richard,...