Benjamin Franklin

“Industry need not wish.”

“The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.”

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

“I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.”

“He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”

“There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.”

“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”

“Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.”

“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”

“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”

“Mine is better than ours.”

“The first mistake in public business is the going into it.”

“He that speaks much, is much mistaken.”

“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”

“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.”

“When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.”

“Our necessities never equal our wants.”

“Nine men in ten are would be suicides.”

“Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.”