Benjamin Quotes

Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.

The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write.

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.

There is no gains without pain.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.

The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

He that's content hath enough.

Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.

Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.

God bless the King, and grant him long to Reign.

The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

What you would seem to be, be really.

Man is a tool-making animal

Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.

Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much.

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.

In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

The tedious and convoluted reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ongoing project to expunge all references to God from the public domain.

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

Invention is totally independent of the will.

Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.

Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.

Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.

Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?

It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.

Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the exciting cause. Nothing but actual flight can save you.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be.