There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.