Benjamin Franklin

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Hunger is the best pickle.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Honesty is the best policy.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.