“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it,… — 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
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. — 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
