Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man… — Benjamin Franklin Character Copy Share Image
If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But… — Benjamin Franklin Angry Copy Share Image
Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money. — Benjamin Franklin Affair Copy Share Image
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. — Benjamin Franklin Ill Copy Share Image
You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that… — Benjamin Franklin Asks Copy Share Image
“Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can. — Benjamin Franklin Children Copy Share Image
Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. — Benjamin Franklin Benefits Copy Share Image
It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen. — Benjamin Franklin Inspirational Copy Share Image
Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . . — Benjamin Franklin Frugality Copy Share Image
Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself. — Benjamin Franklin Anger Copy Share Image
A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe,… — Benjamin Franklin Battle Copy Share Image
“There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it… — Benjamin Franklin Humility Copy Share Image
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. — Benjamin Franklin Danger Copy Share Image
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he… — Benjamin Franklin Ability Copy Share Image
Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance. — Benjamin Franklin Cost Copy Share Image
We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is,… — Benjamin Franklin And love 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 Analytics Copy Share Image
“All the property that is necessary to a man for the conservation of the individual and his propagation of the species is… — Benjamin Franklin Civil society Copy Share Image
