Benjamin Franklin

He who can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin

Here’s to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still–and they obeyed.

Benjamin Franklin

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What’s a sun-dial in the shade?

Benjamin Franklin

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

Benjamin Franklin

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

Benjamin Franklin

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Benjamin Franklin

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.

Benjamin Franklin

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Benjamin Franklin

I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.

Benjamin Franklin

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Benjamin Franklin