A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches… — 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
A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness. — 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
A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among… — 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
The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A man can be beautiful physically, mentally, or personality wise. True beauty, though, is in the spirit. A genuine man who understands… — 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
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
If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The general policy of the past has been to drive, but the era of force must give way to that of knowledge,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking. — 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
The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity. — 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
