If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. – 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
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. – Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. – Benjamin Franklin
The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle