Continued Insights from Benjamin Franklin

"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged"

"Those that won't be counseled can't be helped"

"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions"

"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest"

"The discontented man finds no easy chair"

"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 adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion"

"He that lives upon hope will die fasting"

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else"

"The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse"

"Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in"

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes"

"I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning"

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

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing"

"There was never a good war, or a bad peace"

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today"

"Necessity never made a good bargain"

"You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?"

"When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?"

"When in doubt, don't"

"When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it"

"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow"

"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants"

"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous"

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn"

"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste"

"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things"

"He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed"

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of"

"If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some"

"I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first"