Benjamin Franklin Class

Famous quotes containing the words benjamin franklin, benjamin, franklin and/or class:

    “If you would not be forgotten,
    as soon as you are dead and rotten,
    either write things worth reading
    or do things worth the writing.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    “Here Skugg
    Lies snug
    As a bug
    In a rug”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “He has more to impart than to receive from his generation. He is another such a strong and finished workman in his craft as Samuel Johnson was, and, like him, makes the literary class respectable.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)