By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution. — Benjamin Franklin Caution Copy Share Image
Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted? — Benjamin Franklin Avarice Copy Share Image
Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more. — Benjamin Franklin Begets Copy Share Image
I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the… — Benjamin Franklin Innovation Copy Share Image
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. — Benjamin Franklin Constitution Copy Share Image
Excess in all other Things whatever, as well as in Meat and Drink, is also to be avoided. — Benjamin Franklin Drink Copy Share Image
“Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into disputation, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what… — Benjamin Franklin Advise Copy Share Image
Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong. — Benjamin Franklin Ifs Copy Share Image
“I balanc'd some time between principle and inclination, till I recollected that, when the fish were opened, I saw smaller fish taken… — Benjamin Franklin Time Copy Share Image
With regard to future bliss, I cannot help imagining that multitudes of the zealously orthodox of different sects, who at the last… — Benjamin Franklin Happiness Copy Share Image
The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity. — Benjamin Franklin English love Copy Share Image
At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter. — Benjamin Franklin Dare Copy Share Image
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things — Benjamin Franklin Avarice Copy Share Image
Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70. — Benjamin Franklin Buried Copy Share Image
“They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. —written for the Pennsylvania… — Benjamin Franklin Freedom Copy Share Image
I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the… — Benjamin Franklin Chance Copy Share Image
A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse… — Benjamin Franklin Mischief Copy Share Image
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. — Benjamin Franklin Medicine Copy Share Image
