So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
[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
1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution...… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . . — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day. — 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