Benjamin Franklin

Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

Benjamin Franklin

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.

Benjamin Franklin

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, what’s begun in anger ends in shame.

Benjamin Franklin

Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.

Benjamin Franklin

That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Benjamin Franklin

That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning,

Benjamin Franklin

That which resembles most living one’s life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

Benjamin Franklin

The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

Benjamin Franklin

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

Benjamin Franklin

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin