Benjamin Franklin

A traveller should have a hog's nose, a deer's legs, and an ass's back.

— Benjamin Franklin

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

— Benjamin Franklin

Who says Jack is not generous? He is always fond of giving, and cares not for receiving. What? Why; Advice.

— Benjamin Franklin

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

— Benjamin Franklin

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

— Benjamin Franklin

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

— Benjamin Franklin

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

— Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.

— Benjamin Franklin

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

— Benjamin Franklin

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors

— Benjamin Franklin

Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.

— Benjamin Franklin

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

— Benjamin Franklin