In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it… — 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
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her laws; 'tis enough to know… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much?… — 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
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
It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“All the property that is necessary to a man for the conservation of the individual and his propagation of the species is… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the… — 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
