Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge. — Benjamin Franklin Carelessness Copy Share Image
It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man. — Benjamin Franklin Criminals Copy Share Image
Let all men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly, for he freely fords who sees the shallows. — Benjamin Franklin Greatness Copy Share Image
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession. — Benjamin Franklin Amiable Copy Share Image
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. — Benjamin Franklin Affliction Copy Share Image
Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and… — Benjamin Franklin Career Copy Share Image
If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a… — Benjamin Franklin Borrowing Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He… — Benjamin Franklin Christian father Copy Share Image
If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her laws; 'tis enough to know… — Benjamin Franklin Deep thought Copy Share Image
What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your… — Benjamin Franklin Achievement Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of… — Benjamin Franklin Affair Copy Share Image
“And conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it;… — Benjamin Franklin Parenting 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
All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out… — Benjamin Franklin Books Copy Share Image
“On the whole, sir, I can not help expressing a wish that every member of the convention who may still have objections… — Benjamin Franklin Convention Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and… — Benjamin Franklin Barriers Copy Share Image
“He had been brought up to it from a boy, his father, as I have heard, accustoming his children to dispute with… — Benjamin Franklin Children Copy Share Image
