Benjamin Franklin Quotes

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

Wise Men learn by other's harms; Fools by their own.

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

God helps them that help themselves.

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

You tell me, and I forget
You teach me, and I remember
You involve me, and I learn

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.

Fools need Advice most, but wise Men only are the better for it.

The best of all medicines are resting and fasting.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it; There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has, the more one wants.

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.