A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
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

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin

Necessity never made a good bargain.
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

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin

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

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Benjamin Franklin

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
William Shakespeare

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
William Shakespeare

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
William Shakespeare

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
William Shakespeare