Benjamin Franklin

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

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.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

God helps those who help themselves.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Beware the hobby that eats.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.