If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

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.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.

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