Benjamin Franklin Quotes

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one’s self wise;

the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.

Ignorance leads men into a party, and shame keeps them from getting out again.

Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.

What Comfort can the Vortices of Descartes give to a Man who has Whirlwinds in his bowels!

When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to support, so that its Professors are oblig'd to call for the help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rottin', either write things width reading or do things worth writing.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

The rotten apple spoils his companions.

The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom spun too fine.

Honesty is the best policy.

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

Men should be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot;

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or controul the Right of another: And this is the only Check it ought to suffer, and the only Bounds it ought to know.

Beware of little expenses; A small leak will sink a great ship, as Poor Richard says; and again, Who dainties love, shall beggars prove; and moreover, Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.