Benjamin Franklin

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

Benjamin Franklin

Saying and Doing, have quarrel’d and parted.

Benjamin Franklin

School and other education constantly proceed upon false principles, and show a clumsy apparatus pointed at a false mark; but your apparatus is simple, and the mark a true one;

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin Franklin

Security without liberty is called prison.

Benjamin Franklin

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

Benjamin Franklin

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

Silence – Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

Benjamin Franklin

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

Benjamin Franklin