Benjamin Franklin

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

A penny saved is two pence clear.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live

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.

The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

whatever you become be good at it

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

Women are books, and men the readers be.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.