Benjamin Franklin quotes.

“They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”

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

“A place for everything, everything in its place.”

“Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.”

“He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

“Small is the number of them that build upon their boys, the foundation they had lain before.”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.”

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

“You may delay, but time will not.”

“Applause waits on success.”

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”

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

“The way to see by faith, is to shut the eye of reason.”

“A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”

“Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Let us then be up and doing, and doing to a purpose.”

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

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

“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”

“Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.”

“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”

“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”

“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.”

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

“Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.”

“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

“A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned”

“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

“Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.”

“For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.”

“The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.”

“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

“Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”

“Lost time is never found again.”

“Well done, is better than well said.”

“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.”

“Tell me and I forget; teach me and I may remember; involve me and I learn.”

“Well done is better than well said.”

“Saving is another form of earning.”