If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any… — Benjamin Franklin Avoided Copy Share Image
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension… — Benjamin Franklin Apprehension Copy Share Image
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. — Benjamin Franklin Body Copy Share Image
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never… — Benjamin Franklin Certain Copy Share Image
Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're… — Benjamin Franklin Add Copy Share Image
If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves. — Benjamin Franklin Care Copy Share Image
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it. — Benjamin Franklin Forget Copy Share Image
Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation. — Benjamin Franklin Disguise Copy Share Image
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't. — Benjamin Franklin Funny Copy Share Image
Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such… — Benjamin Franklin Grief Copy Share Image
Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar. — Benjamin Franklin Inspirational Copy Share Image
Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith... — Benjamin Franklin Annuals Copy Share Image
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the… — Benjamin Franklin Barbers Copy Share Image
If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to. — Benjamin Franklin Ifs Copy Share Image
In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor,… — Benjamin Franklin Contrary Copy Share Image
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities. — Benjamin Franklin Long Copy Share Image
It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the… — Benjamin Franklin Business Copy Share Image
I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by… — Benjamin Franklin Candle Copy Share Image
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth —… — Benjamin Franklin Affair Copy Share Image
The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the… — Benjamin Franklin Advantage Copy Share Image
