We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If gymnastics were easy, it would be called football. 10% talent, 90% hard workEnergy and persistence conquer all things. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. — 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
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
