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)
“Oh, you’ll love the sea. There’s something about it. The hot red dawn, the towering sails, the wake on a tropical night. Oh, you’ll love it all. It’s a glorious kind of world. I couldn’t live without it.”
—Charles Larkworthy. Denison Clift. Capt. Benjamin Briggs (Arthur Margetson)
“Here Skugg
Lies snug
As a bug
In a rug”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
“There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation of the beautiful, more especially than for our own, had been set in order by God the great landscape-garden of the whole earth.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)