Benjamin Franklin

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. ”

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

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. ”

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. ”

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. ”

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. ”

He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ”

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

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly. ”

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. ”