Provision

Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelist

"In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it."

Jean Cocteau Poet, Novelist, Playwright

"It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed."

John Locke Philosopher, Physician

"The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living."

Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

"A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family."