There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle. — 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
That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by… — 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
