Industry need not wish.
Benjamin Franklin

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin Franklin

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Benjamin Franklin

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Benjamin Franklin

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin Franklin

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin Franklin

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin

Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin Franklin

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Benjamin Franklin

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin

Mine is better than ours.
Benjamin Franklin

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.
Benjamin Franklin

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin