Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty. — Benjamin Franklin Best way Copy Share Image
I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old. — Benjamin Franklin Mind Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Alphabet Copy Share Image
“The cat in gloves catches no mice. Make hay while the sun shines.” — Benjamin Franklin Cats Copy Share Image
I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war,… — Benjamin Franklin Good war Copy Share Image
Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and… — Benjamin Franklin Beast Copy Share Image
A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be… — Benjamin Franklin Education Copy Share Image
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may… — Benjamin Franklin Advice Copy Share Image
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do -… — Benjamin Franklin Being happy Copy Share Image
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” — Benjamin Franklin Freedom Copy Share Image
How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only… — Benjamin Franklin Action Copy Share Image
That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render… — Benjamin Franklin Autobiography Copy Share Image
Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I do not find that I grow any older. Being arrived at seventy, and considering that by traveling further in the same… — Benjamin Franklin Old friends Copy Share Image
That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes,… — Benjamin Franklin Character Copy Share Image
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I am apprehensive, therefore - perhaps too apprehensive - that the Government of these States may in futures times end in a… — Benjamin Franklin Apprehensive Copy Share Image
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all… — Benjamin Franklin Accumulating wealth Copy Share Image
