Benjamin Franklin said this prayer every day: "O Powerful Goodness, Bountiful Father, Merciful Guide, Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform that that wisdom dictates. Father of Light and Life, Thou Good Supreme, teach me what is good. Teach me Thyself. Save me from folly, vanity, vice, from every low pursuit. Fill my soul with knowledge, conscious peace, virtue pure, sacred, substantial, never-fading perseverance."