Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“He had been brought up to it from a boy, his father, as I have heard, accustoming his children to dispute with… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“He agreed with the captain of a New York sloop for my passage, under the notion of my being a young acquaintance… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — 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 of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
