FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN

1. While Franklin's quiet memory climbs to heaven,
   Calming the lightning which he thence hath riven.—BYRON, The Age of Bronze
   

2. Benjamin Franklin, incarnation of the peddling, tuppeny Yankee.—JEFFERSON DAVIS
   

3. The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding), lies here, food for worms; but the work shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, revised and corrected by the Author.—FRANKLIN: Epitaph for Himself

4. I succeed him; no one could replace him.—JEFFERSON, When it was said that he replaced Franklin as Ambassador to France.
   

5. "What is the use of this new invention?" some one asked Franklin. "What is the use of a newborn child?" was his reply.—JAMES PARTON, The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin