Benjamin Franklin

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.