“So convenient a thing it is to be a rational creature, since it enables us to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.”
More from Benjamin Franklin
“Do you love life? Then do not waste time, for that is what life is made of.”
“There are three Things extremely hard, Steel, a Diamond, and to know one’s self.”
“Nine men in ten are would-be suicides.”
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”