Benjamin FranklinGod helps those who help themselves. ✨ Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth, p.29, The Way to Wealth452Reflection
Benjamin FranklinLost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough. ✨ Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). Memoirs of the Life and Writi… ▶412LifeTime
Benjamin FranklinEvery pot must sit on its own bottom.382Time
Benjamin FranklinThe one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.371Reflection
Benjamin FranklinA little neglect may breed great mischief. ✨ Benjamin Franklin (2004). Poor Richard's Almanack, p.288, Barnes & Noble Publishing372Time
Benjamin FranklinYou can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns. ✨ Benjamin Franklin (2013). Poor Richard's Almanack, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing… ▶361Humor
Benjamin FranklinWithout freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he… ▶372PhilosophyThought
Benjamin FranklinThe most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy … ▶372HumorLife
Benjamin FranklinRemember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day. ✨ Benjamin Franklin (1839). Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, p.37372Politics
Benjamin FranklinWe are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circums… ▶362HumanityLifePolitics
Benjamin FranklinGetting it done is my reward.362Life
Benjamin FranklinThe good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governm… ▶373Politics
Benjamin FranklinAmong the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits whi… ▶373ReflectionSadness
Benjamin FranklinLittle strokes fell great oaks. ✨ Benjamin Franklin (1821). Essays and Letters, p.81373Reflection
Benjamin FranklinIf 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 t… ▶351HumanitySadness
Benjamin FranklinWe must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.351Sadness
Benjamin FranklinBy heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.373Politics
Benjamin FranklinHe that takes a wife, takes care ✨ Benjamin Franklin (2008). The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac, p.22, Nayika Publishing362Humor
Benjamin FranklinLawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection. ✨ Poor Richard's Almanack, May 1734362Politics
Benjamin FranklinThose who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.373Hope
Benjamin FranklinIf you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. ✨ The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac.373Reflection
Benjamin FranklinThe 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. ✨ Letter, The Public Advertiser, 22 May 1… ▶374Love
Benjamin FranklinThe most acceptable service of God is doing good to man. ✨ Benjamin Franklin (2010). The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition, p.155, University … ▶374Reading
Benjamin FranklinTake one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful. ✨ Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2… ▶374Sadness
Benjamin FranklinTake time for all things: great haste makes great waste.341Time
Benjamin FranklinA life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. ✨ Benjamin Franklin (1839). The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benja… ▶363Life
Benjamin FranklinThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ✨ Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). Memoirs o… ▶363DeathLifeTime
Benjamin FranklinA fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine. ✨ Benjamin Franklin (2013). Poor Richard's Almanack, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.352Reading
Benjamin FranklinLying rides upon debt's back. ✨ Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by Will… ▶352DeathLifeTime
Benjamin FranklinThe borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor. ✨ Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). Autobiography and Other Writings, p.272, Oxford University P… ▶363Humanity
