The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again;… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This sentence was much… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough. — 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
The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away… — 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
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
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith. — 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
