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
Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety. — Benjamin Franklin Anxiety Copy Share Image
The key that unlocks a door is a key to keep if you want to go through that door again. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“You tell me, and I forget You teach me, and I remember You involve me, and I learn” — Benjamin Franklin Education Copy Share Image
E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within. — Benjamin Franklin Conscience Copy Share Image
If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend. — Benjamin Franklin Best friend Copy Share Image
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. — Benjamin Franklin Happiness Copy Share Image
“By my rambling digressions, I perceive myself to be grown old. I used to write more methodically, but one does not dress… — Benjamin Franklin Business Copy Share Image
He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“and therefore wishing to break a habit I was getting into of prattling, punning, and joking, which only made me acceptable to… — Benjamin Franklin Business Copy Share Image
You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching… — Benjamin Franklin Education Copy Share Image
The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest;… — Benjamin Franklin Affair Copy Share Image
It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Tho' I seldom attended any public worship, I had still an opinion of its propriety, and of its utility when rightly conducted,… — Benjamin Franklin Bible Copy Share Image
“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making… — Benjamin Franklin Doing good Copy Share Image
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we… — Benjamin Franklin Constitution Copy Share Image
When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them… — Benjamin Franklin Another year Copy Share Image
Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves and essential role in government. Where a government… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child,… — Benjamin Franklin Children Copy Share Image