In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. — 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
While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life. — 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
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur… — 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