Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

The second vice is lying; the first is running in debt.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

Without justice, courage is weak.

Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the bestî

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.

Trusting too much to others' care is the ruin of many

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things.

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments."

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.