Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty? — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not… — 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