Benjamin Franklin

There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands. ”

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. ”

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ”

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. ”

Beauty and folly are old companions. ”

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. ”

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. ”

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ”

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. ”

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. ”