At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.
– Benjamin Franklin
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
– Benjamin Franklin
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
– Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
– Benjamin Franklin
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
– Benjamin Franklin
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
– Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
– Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
– Benjamin Franklin
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
– Benjamin Franklin
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
– Benjamin Franklin
If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
– Benjamin Franklin
If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
– Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
– Benjamin Franklin
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
– Benjamin Franklin
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
– Benjamin Franklin
Fish and visitors smell in three days.
– Benjamin Franklin
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
– Benjamin Franklin
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
– Benjamin Franklin
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
– Benjamin Franklin
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.
– Benjamin Franklin
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
– Benjamin Franklin
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
– Benjamin Franklin
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
– Benjamin Franklin
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
– Benjamin Franklin
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
– Benjamin Franklin
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
– Benjamin Franklin
God helps those who help themselves.
– Benjamin Franklin
Fatigue is the best pillow.
– Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
– Benjamin Franklin
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
– Benjamin Franklin
Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.
– Benjamin Franklin
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
– Benjamin Franklin
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.