Benjamin Franklin

“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”

“Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.”

“A place for everything, everything in its place.”

“Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.”

“All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.”

“The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.”

“The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.”

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

“If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.”

“He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”

“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”

“I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.”

“Fatigue is the best pillow.”

“Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.”

“She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.”

“Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.”

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”

“Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.”

“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.”