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
A traveller should have a hog's nose, a deer's legs, and an ass's back. — 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
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
Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first,… — 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
On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of… — 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
If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . .… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Masonic ideas are the precious jewels of Speculative Masons; the should be kept bright and sparkling for all the brethren to see… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and… — 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
I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of… — 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
