Benjamin Franklin

If you do tomorrow what you did today, you will get tomorrow what you got today.

Benjamin Franklin

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Benjamin Franklin

If you’d be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

Benjamin Franklin

If you’d lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.

Benjamin Franklin

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Benjamin Franklin

In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.

Benjamin Franklin

In short, I conceive that a great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.

Benjamin Franklin

Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.

Benjamin Franklin

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

Benjamin Franklin

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Benjamin Franklin