Benjamin Franklin

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

You may delay, but time will not.

Lost time is never found again.

Applause waits on success.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Well done is better than well said.