Benjamin Franklin

I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.

In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day.

Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in my Opinion be able to preserve our Language, and even our Government will become precarious.

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

Doing your best means never stop trying.

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.