Benjamin Franklin

I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.

Benjamin Franklin

I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night.

Benjamin Franklin

I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.

Benjamin Franklin

I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick, their memory as strong, and their docility in every respect equal to that of white children.

Benjamin Franklin

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

Benjamin Franklin

I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

Benjamin Franklin

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

Benjamin Franklin

I have never seen the philosopher’s stone that turns lead into gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a man’s gold into lead.

Benjamin Franklin

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

Benjamin Franklin

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

Benjamin Franklin