Benjamin Franklin
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.Collection: Success
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.Collection: Death
As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.Collection: Great
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.Collection: Love
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.Collection: Money
God helps those who help themselves.Collection: God
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.Collection: Men
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Mine is better than ours.
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Industry need not wish.
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
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.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
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.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
He that's secure is not safe.
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.
A penny saved is two pence clear.