A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother. — 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
A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is… — 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
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. — 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
Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope. — 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
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General… — 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
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
I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they… — 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
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
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
The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?' — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. — 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
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
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
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
“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
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
