Benjamin Franklin
A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it."Collection: Doctors
And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it, if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he does not find the Bliss of a double State much greater, instead of being less than he expected.Collection: Family
To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.Collection: Coffee
Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.Collection: Law
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.Collection: God
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.Collection: Innocent Person
Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.Collection: Purses
Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.Collection: Provoking
Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.Collection: Pickles
I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.Collection: Eye
He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.Collection: Self Love
We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.Collection: Money
I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions . . . to practice them ever while I lived.Collection: Honesty
A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.Collection: Men
In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.Collection: Animal
Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.Collection: Years
Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought.Collection: Country
Masonic ideas are the precious jewels of Speculative Masons; the should be kept bright and sparkling for all the brethren to see and to admire. As such, they should be the special care of Masonic leaders particularly those who teach and interpret the philosophy of Freemasonry.Collection: Philosophy
If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!Collection: People
The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting.Collection: Sweet
A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.Collection: Inspirational
Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importanceCollection: Life
Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.Collection: Want
One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.Collection: Time
What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.Collection: Life
We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it' I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages.Collection: Believe
You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By heaven we understand a state of happiness, infinite in degree, and eternal in duration. I can do nothing to deserve such rewards... Even the mixed imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this world, are rather from God's goodness than our merit, how much more such happiness of heaven!Collection: Heaven
Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.Collection: Church
The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.Collection: Interesting
The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.Collection: Nature
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.Collection: Get Well Soon
People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.Collection: Inspirational
Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.Collection: Conquer The World
In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.Collection: Memories
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 endedCollection: Wisdom
Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.Collection: Fountain
The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.Collection: Ease
Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.Collection: Food
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be followed by the best modern histories, particularly of our mother country; then of these colonies; which should be accompanied with observations on their rise, increase, use to Great Britain, encouragements and discouragements, the means to make them flourish, and secure their liberties.Collection: Education
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.Collection: Gratitude
If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him.Collection: Taken
Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.Collection: Matter
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.Collection: Chance
The only time not wasted is wasted time.Collection: Wasted Time
The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.Collection: Soldier
If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.Collection: Liberty
The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.Collection: Certainty
Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.Collection: Meat