Benjamin Franklin

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

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.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.