Benjamin Franklin

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.

When men are employed they are best contented.

What good shall I do this day?

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

A dying man can do nothing easy.

Moderation in all things - including moderation.

Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.

Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

Time is the stuff life is made of.

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.