Famous quotes containing the words franklin, templeton and/or classic:
“No nation was ever ruined by trade.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
“I feel a strange delight that fills me full,
Strange gratitude, as if evil itself were beautiful,”
—Frank Templeton Prince (b. 1912)
“One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set in. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again.”
—Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)