About Benjamin Franklin: Benjamin Franklin is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He facilitated many civic organizations, including Philadelphia's fire department and a university.
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.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
God helps those who help themselves.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
A place for everything, everything in its place.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
