Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Benjamin Franklin

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

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

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Benjamin Franklin

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

Fatigue is the best pillow.
Benjamin Franklin

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.
Benjamin Franklin

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin Franklin

Games lubricate the body and the mind.
Benjamin Franklin

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin

God helps those who help themselves.
Benjamin Franklin

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Benjamin Franklin

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Benjamin Franklin

Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Benjamin Franklin

He that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Benjamin Franklin