So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainl….

Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on his protruding abdomen, said,"Dr. Franklin,….

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness..

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse..

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom….

Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain..

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune..

The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female..

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt..

If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the Frenc….

Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion..

Security without liberty is called prison..

A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it..

Success has ruin'd many a man..

He that best understands the world, least likes it.

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first plac….

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may ….

He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up ….

It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a pre….

Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves..

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virt….