Benjamin Franklin

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

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

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.