Benjamin Franklin

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd, and never well mended.

There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

If you would have your business done, go; if not, send.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

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

Leisure is time for doing something useful.

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

The best way to keep a secret is to never tell it.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

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

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth—that God governs in the affairs of men.

The soul of man is immortal and will be eternally happy.

Death is as natural as life.

The body of B. Franklin, Printer; Like the Cover of an old Book, Its Contents torn out, And stript of its Lettering and Gilding, Lies here, Food for Worms. But the Work shall not be wholly lost: For it will, as he believ'd, appear once more, In a new & more perfect Edition, Corrected and amended By the Author.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'