You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the… — 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
