For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
“Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.”
“O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?”