Benjamin Franklin

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”

“When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.”

“Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.”

“God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.”

“There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that...”

“Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.”

“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out o...”

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”

“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”

“Beware the hobby that eats.”

“Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.”

“All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.”

“Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”

“It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.”

“To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.”

“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

“He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.”

“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.”

“And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.”