Quotes from Benjamin

Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.

The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.

Bob Riley, a kind soul who "treads lightly in this world," is in the 22nd year of a federal life without parole LSD sentence.

There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

A canter is a cure for every evil.

Travel teaches toleration.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

A Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

I say that justice is truth in action.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Never complain and never explain.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.