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• Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
  -- Benjamin Frankli...
• He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. -- Benjamin Frankli
• Happiness and good fortune inevitably happen to someone else.
• Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one. Benjamin Frankli
• Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
  -- Sally Koch...
• Great Opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. Sally Koch
• It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur.
  If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results....
• And it does matter. An honest man or woman is an honest man or woman more because he or she is honest in the small
  everyday things that "don't matter" individually, but which make up a well-lived life, than because of some single great temptation that was passed....
• There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
  -- Benjamin Frankli...