As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. – Benjamin Franklin
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. – Benjamin Franklin
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. – Benjamin Franklin
Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money. – Benjamin Franklin
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. – Benjamin Franklin
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. – Benjamin Franklin
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. – Benjamin Franklin