Franklin Jones

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

All mankind love a lover.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.

By indignities men come to dignities.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

An honest man is always a child.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.