“My Parents had early given me religious Impressions, and brought me through my Childhood piously in the Dissenting Way. But I was… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“And conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it;… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I imagine it great vanity in me to suppose that the Supremely Perfect does in the least regard such an inconsiderable nothing… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“He had been brought up to it from a boy, his father, as I have heard, accustoming his children to dispute with… — 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
