Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man… — 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
