Benjamin Franklin

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

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

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Half the truth is often a great lie.