Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . . — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't. — 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
