Benjamin Franklin Quotes

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

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.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Security without liberty is called prison.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.