A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Author
Benjamin Franklin
139 quotations
About Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence; and the first postmaster general.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Benjamin FranklinThe eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom…
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Advertisement
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Honesty is the best policy.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Half a truth is often a great lie.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
You may delay, but time will not.
Time is money.
Lost time is never found again.