“The trouble with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest. — Benjamin Franklin Providence Copy Share Image
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. — Benjamin Franklin Injustice Copy Share Image
He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not — Benjamin Franklin Anger Copy Share Image
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. — Benjamin Franklin Business Copy Share Image
A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother. — Benjamin Franklin Brother Copy Share Image
Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. — Benjamin Franklin Affair Copy Share Image
[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies… — Benjamin Franklin Bankers Copy Share Image
Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life. — Benjamin Franklin Ability Copy Share Image
“Our supper was only half an anchovy each, on a very little strip of bread and butter, and half a pint of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the… — Benjamin Franklin Approach Copy Share Image
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in… — Benjamin Franklin Affording Copy Share Image
When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all… — Benjamin Franklin Advantage Copy Share Image
Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we… — Benjamin Franklin Friendship 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
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
If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not… — Benjamin Franklin Bishops Copy Share Image
“He agreed with the captain of a New York sloop for my passage, under the notion of my being a young acquaintance… — Benjamin Franklin Children Copy Share Image
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of… — Benjamin Franklin Bounds Copy Share Image
Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither. — Benjamin Franklin Cybersecurity Copy Share Image