What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?
Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great.
The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.
If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman’s house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.
Hope is an essential constituent of human life.
It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.
My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.
I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.
If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her.
If you want to keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
Remember this saying, The good payer is lord of another man’s purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare.
Make use of your friends by being of use to them.
Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him.
Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.
Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day.
He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.
A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day ’s a groat a year.