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.
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
He that rises late must trot all day.
He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
He that's secure is not safe.
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
