Benjamin Franklin

“Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.”

“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”

“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.”

“Fatigue is the best pillow.”

“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.”

“There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”

“Honesty is the best policy.”

“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”

“God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.”

“I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.”

“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”

“Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.”

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“One today is worth two tomorrows.”

“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”

“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

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

“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”

“A place for everything, everything in its place.”

“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.”