Ben Franklin - Independence Day eve...

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.”

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.”

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”

“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”

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

“I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. ”

“Observe all men, thyself most. ”