Benjamin Franklin

“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”

“Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.”

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.”

“He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.”

“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.”

“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”

“There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”

“He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”

“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”

“When in doubt, don't.”

“Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.”

“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.”

“When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.”

“A penny saved is a penny earned.”

“He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.”

“Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.”

“It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.”

“I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.”

“An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.”