Benjamin Franklin

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

Benjamin Franklin

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

Benjamin Franklin

Get what you can, and what you get hold; ’tis the stone that will turn all your lead into gold.

Benjamin Franklin

Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.

Benjamin Franklin

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.’

Benjamin Franklin

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Benjamin Franklin

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Benjamin Franklin

He that best understands the world, least likes it.

Benjamin Franklin