Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"If what most men admire
they would despise,
It would look as if mankind
were growing wise."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"The noblest question in the world is
What good may I do in it?"

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"Half the truth is often a great lie."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (c. 1809-1849)

"In no affairs of mere prejudice, pro or con, do we deduce inferences with entire certainty, even from the most simple data."

• From Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative of A. Gordon Pym in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"Who is wise?
He that learns from everyone.

Who is powerful?
He that governs his passions.

Who is rich?
He that is content.

Who is that?
Nobody."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"Don't throw stones at your neighbors' of your own windows are glass."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have no wit enough to be honest."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Mark Twain

Mark Twain (c. 1835-1910)

"In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain."

• From the The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Chapter II), by Mark Tain (originally published 1876).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (c. 1809-1849)

"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence; they must not--they cannot at will be excited with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind."

• From Edgar Allan Poe's preface to The Raven and Other Poems (c. 1845) in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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Mark Twain

Samuel Clemens (alias Mark Twain, c. 1835-1910)

"Although my book is intended  mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes ingaged in"

• From the preface of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Tain (originally published 1876). 

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"Silence is not always a sign of wisdom but babbling is ever a mark of folly."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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General Curtis E. LeMay

General Curtis LeMay (c. 1906-1990)

"I'd rather be active, doing almost any demanding interesting thing in the world, than participating in social activities."

• Gen. LeMay wrote this quote bemoaning the social responsibilities of his position as Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force in his autobiographical work, Mission with LeMay: My Story, by Curtis LeMay and MacKinlay Kantor (Doubleday & Company, 1965).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)


"The learned fool writes his nonsense in better languages than the unlearned; but still it is nonsense."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Black Elk

Black Elk (c. 1863-1950)

"Seeds sprout in the darkness of the ground before they know the summer and the day."

• From Black Elk Speaks (chapter 18), narrated by Black Elk and recorded/edited by John G. Neihardt. (University of Nebraska Press, 2014).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"A good Conscience is a continual Christmas."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Black Elk

Black Elk (c. 1863-1950)

"You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round."

• From Black Elk Speaks (chapter 17), narrated by Black Elk and recorded/edited by John G. Neihardt. (University of Nebraska Press, 2014).

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General W. T. Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman (c. 1820-1891)

"I have again and again been invited to write a history of the war, or to record for publication my personal recollections of it, with large offers of money therefor; all of which I have heretofore declined, because the truth is not always palatable, and should not always be told."

• From The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman (Chapter IX) by W. T. Sherman. (Renaissance Classics, 2012).

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