Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.

Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.

Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men.

In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.

Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.

Man is a tool-making animal

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.