I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a… — Benjamin Franklin Accounts Copy Share Image
Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth… — Benjamin Franklin Able Copy Share Image
We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years. — Benjamin Franklin Government Copy Share Image
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read. — Benjamin Franklin Deserve 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 Book Copy Share Image
Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with… — Benjamin Franklin Effects Copy Share Image
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough… — Benjamin Franklin Affair Copy Share Image
Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions. — Benjamin Franklin Action Copy Share Image
“Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.” — Benjamin Franklin Friendship Copy Share Image
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices — Benjamin Franklin Character Copy Share Image
But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they… — Benjamin Franklin Advantage Copy Share Image
In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common… — Benjamin Franklin Boys Copy Share Image
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter. — Benjamin Franklin Easter Copy Share Image
“Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur… — Benjamin Franklin Every day Copy Share Image
A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under… — Benjamin Franklin Able Copy Share Image
Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature. — Benjamin Franklin Human nature Copy Share Image
A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all. — Benjamin Franklin Belts Copy Share Image
He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose. — Benjamin Franklin Conscious Copy Share Image
Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to… — Benjamin Franklin Being thankful Copy Share Image
Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive. — Benjamin Franklin Cheerful Copy Share Image
Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout. — Benjamin Franklin Habit Copy Share Image
