Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. – Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. – Benjamin Franklin
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. – Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. – Benjamin Franklin
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. – Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. – Benjamin Franklin
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. – Benjamin Franklin
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. – Benjamin Franklin
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. – Benjamin Franklin
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. – Benjamin Franklin
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. – Benjamin Franklin
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‘This is my country.’ – Benjamin Franklin
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. – Benjamin Franklin