Benjamin Quotes

If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both.

Success has ruin'd many a man.

Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it.

Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.

Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.

The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.

It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.

When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.

He's gone, and forgot nothing but to say farewell to his creditors

Eyes and Priests Bear no Jests.

Display is as false as it is costly.

E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.

You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

Marry above thy match and you will get a master.

You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.

Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.

Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.

Hope of gain lessens pain.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!!

If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.

One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults.

A true friend is the greatest possesion.

Approve not of him who commends all you say.

If you have a secret and tell someone everyone will know. You can only keep a secret if you don't tell anyone.

Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.

Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!

In success be moderate.

Where security exists, liberty and opportunity do not.

You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.

If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.

As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.

Great spenders are bad lenders.

If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy.

Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.

Patience in Market, is worth Pounds in a year.

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.

Tolerate no Uncleanliness in Body, Clothes, or Habitation.