Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. – Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war, or a bad peace. – Benjamin Franklin
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. – Benjamin Franklin
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. – Benjamin Franklin
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. – Benjamin Franklin
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good. – Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain. – Benjamin Franklin
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. – Benjamin Franklin
Diligence is the mother of good luck. – Benjamin Franklin
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. – Benjamin Franklin
A good conscience is a continual Christmas. – Benjamin Franklin
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. – Benjamin Franklin
God helps those who help themselves. – Benjamin Franklin
God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man. – Benjamin Franklin
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. – Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. – Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. – Benjamin Franklin
Beware the hobby that eats. – Benjamin Franklin
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. – Benjamin Franklin
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. – Benjamin Franklin