Benjamin Franklin

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."

"The worst poverty is ignorance; the greatest wealth is knowledge."

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."

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

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

"The best doctor is a friend."

"A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds."

"There are two ways of being happy: we must either diminish our wants or augment our means."

"Nothing causes me more indignation than when I see talented people going down the wrong road because they don't know their strengths."

"To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the lap of fortune."

"Lost time is never found again."

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

"The difficulty is not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping old ones."

"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over."

"The true security of liberty must be in the hearts of people; it must be an affair of conviction."

"Vain men delight in their dress; wise men in their conduct."

"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

"The perfect is the enemy of the good."

"Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one."

"Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him."

"Where carcasses are, eagles will gather."

"Our new Constitution is now established and has an appearance that promises permanency."

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

"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."

"Wine is a constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."

"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel."

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."

"Health is wealth."

"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things."