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)

    “Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    “At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”
    —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)