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
There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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
Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution. — 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
You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced… — 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
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The US Constitution only guarantees your rights as a citizen, it doesn't guarantee happiness. It may take work, but if you have… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being... Almighty God would mercifully… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If… — 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
