Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath… — 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
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
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
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
“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
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
