It's late and I'm sleepy, so I need a little low-hanging fruit, quote-wise. Who better for that than
Ben Franklin?
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
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He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
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