When you are good to others, you are best to yourself. — Benjamin Franklin Acts of kindness Copy Share Image
When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic. — Benjamin Franklin Conservative Copy Share Image
“Work while it is called today for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit. — Benjamin Franklin Goodness Copy Share Image
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it. — Benjamin Franklin Advantage Copy Share Image
A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother. — Benjamin Franklin Brother Copy Share Image
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. — Benjamin Franklin Business Copy Share Image
If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not. — Benjamin Franklin Action Copy Share Image
Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the… — Benjamin Franklin Business Copy Share Image
The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant… — Benjamin Franklin Beautiful Copy Share Image
My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine… — Benjamin Franklin Comedy Copy Share Image
I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“disputing about those already made. I therefore never answered M. Nollet, and the event gave me no cause to repent my silence;… — Benjamin Franklin Books Copy Share Image
My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought… — Benjamin Franklin Character Copy Share Image
There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out… — Benjamin Franklin Books Copy Share Image
All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each… — Benjamin Franklin Book Copy Share Image