Benjamin Franklin Quote

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.


Autobiography, started 1771 [published in full, 1868]


So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.