Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing? — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?" — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be… — 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
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect.… — 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
