Benjamin Franklin

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Honesty is the best policy.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.

He that has a Trade, has an Estate. He that has a Calling, has an Office of Profit and Honor.

The Way to see Faith is to shut our Eyes of Reason.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

He that lives upon hope, will die fasting.

The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should neither have a splendid house nor fine clothes nor a multitude of domestics.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

The noblest question in the world is, What good may I do in it?

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.

I have never seen a bad peace or a good war.