Great talkers are little doers.

If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.

When men are employed they are best contented.

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.

The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.