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

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?.

Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an ….

I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance [as t….

Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many..

Those who laugh often never grow old..

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….

Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate..

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'.

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both..

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

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best.

Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control. It is a small….

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting..

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter..

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do..

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped.

A lighthouse is more useful than a church..

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one..

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants..