Benjamin Franklin

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Benjamin Franklin

You don’t get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

Benjamin Franklin

You may give give a man an office, but you cannot give him discretion.

Benjamin Franklin

You may sometimes be much in the wrong, in owning your being in the right.

Benjamin Franklin

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.

Benjamin Franklin

A fat kitchin, a lean will.

Benjamin Franklin

A fish is a sock for a fish skeleton.

Benjamin Franklin

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter’d always takes his word.

Benjamin Franklin

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

Benjamin Franklin

A lighthouse is more useful than a church.

Benjamin Franklin