Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

At the working man's house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.

Never confuse motion with action.

No man e'er was glorious, who was not laborious.

If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.

When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.