Benjamin Quotes
Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.
The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.
...till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion.
The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.
I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.
A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.
To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.
Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.
Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.
It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.
You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.
There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.
We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.
Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.
O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?
On second thought, it's a good thing love is blind otherwise it would see too much.
Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.
It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.
The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.
People want to catch a buzz. That is why drugs are illegal, yet people still try to get their hands on them no matter what the consequence. Drugs make us happy, they may not be healthy.
You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.
Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.