He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will,… — 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
I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the… — 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
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