[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . .… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. if all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine… — benjamin franklin Copy Share Image
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another. — 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