“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Honesty is the best policy.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“You may delay, but time will not.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Time is money.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Lost time is never found again.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Applause waits on success.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
– Benjamin Franklin