There was no one class, either of rich or of poor, who supplied all these men.

The man who had been poor in earlier life might set to work at once in bettering himself upon the frontier; and by his side, equally prosperous, might be one who in his earlier days had never needed to earn a dollar nor to thrash a fellow-man.
Civilization at its later stages drives the man into a corner.

In its beginning it summons this same man out of the corner and asks him to rely upon himself for the great and the small things of life, thus ultimately developing that sturdy citizen who knows the value of the axiom, "_Ubi bene, ibi patria_." The great deeds, the great dreams become possible for nation or for individual only through the constant performance of small deeds.

"For it must be remembered that life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments.
The greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstructions and frequent interruptions." Such philosophy was for Franklin unformulated.

Care sat not on his heart.