If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . .… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much?… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock… — 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
If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I… — 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
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones… — 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
Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A man can be beautiful physically, mentally, or personality wise. True beauty, though, is in the spirit. A genuine man who understands… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not… — 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
