All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Do you sincerely declare that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Do you think any person ought… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage… — 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
