Benjamin Franklin

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

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he see.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

A cat in gloves catches no mice.

Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended.