To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
Weitere Zitate von Benjamin Franklin
Zum Autor"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."
"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of."
"How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says."
"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."
"If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles."