Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich because her outgoes are greater than her incomes. Women and wine, game and deceit make the wealth small and the wants great.

In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself. You will see it perhaps often in this History. For even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my Humility.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

If dost thou love life, then Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of,

You may think, perhaps, that a little tea, or a little punch now and then, diet a little more costly, clothes a little finer, and a little more entertainment now and then can be no great matter but remember what Poor Richard says "Many a little makes a mickle; beware of little expense for a small leak will sink a great ship.

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

A man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law.

123. To confess a Fault, that is none, out of Fear, is indeed mean: But not to be afraid of standing in one, is Brutish.

Pride breakfasted with Plenty Dined with poverty Supped with Infamy.

If you empty your purse into your head, no one can take it away from you. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

through the goodness of the Lord, truth, I believed, gained some ground, and it was a strengthening opportunity to the honest-hearted.

The noblest question in the world is What good may I do in it?

Great hopes make everything great possible.

country-seat of Bishop Shipley, the good bishop, as Dr. Franklin used to style him.--B. DEAR SON: I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors. You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England, and the journey

with tears and inward supplication besought him so to open my understanding that I might know his will concerning me;

pleases. And, lastly (I may as well confess it, since my denial of it will be believed by nobody), perhaps I shall a good deal gratify my own vanity. Indeed, I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people

He said I appeared a young man of promising parts, and therefore should be encouraged;

stationer, that Riddlesden, the attorney, was a very knave.

Better to be thought fhe fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Through the mercies of the Almighty, I had, in a good degree, learned to be content with a plain way of living.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure when he is really selling himself a slave to it.

126. In such Controversies, it is but too common for some to say, Both are to blame, to excuse their own Unconcernedness, which is a base Neutrality. Others will cry, They are both alike; thereby involving the Injured with the Guilty, to mince the Matter for the Faulty, or cover their own Injustice to the wronged Party.

I went thence to the Old Neck, where I was led into a careful searching out of the secret workings of the mystery of iniquity, which, under a cover of religion exalts itself against that pure spirit which leads in the way of meekness and self-denial.