Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin Franklin

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

The discontented man finds no easy chair.
Benjamin Franklin

The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Benjamin Franklin

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Benjamin Franklin

The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.
Benjamin Franklin

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Benjamin Franklin

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Benjamin Franklin

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin Franklin

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
Benjamin Franklin

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
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