Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacsonby Parker on TwosFranklin was vegetarian for financial reasons. Franklin ate biscuits and raisins and used the time for study, “in which I made the greater progress from the greater clearness of year and quicker apprehension which usually attend temperance in eating and drinking”People are more likely to admire your work if you’re able to keep them from feeling jealous of yoyDon’t always hold your head so high. Stoop, young man, stoop—as you go through this world—and you’ll miss many hard thumpsMisfortunes are brought upon people by carrying their heads too high