Benjamin Franklin

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

“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.”

“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.”

“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.”

“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”

“Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.”

“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”

“God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'”

“I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.”

“Beware the hobby that eats.”

“To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.”

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”

“Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.”

“Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.”

“Necessity never made a good bargain.”

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

“The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.”

“He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.”