Benjamin Franklin

Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies.

Benjamin Franklin

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

Benjamin Franklin

Read much, but not many books!

Benjamin Franklin

Reader, I wish thee health, wealth, happiness, and may kind heaven thy year’s industry bless.

Benjamin Franklin

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongues of others?

Benjamin Franklin

Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

Benjamin Franklin

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

Benjamin Franklin

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.

Benjamin Franklin

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Benjamin Franklin

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Benjamin Franklin