A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. ... I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred… — 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
