By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
People want to catch a buzz. That is why drugs are illegal, yet people still try to get their hands on them… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?' — 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
Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. — 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
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do -… — 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
