Benjamin Franklin

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
** Ben Franklin  

"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."
** Ben Franklin

"Energy and persistence conquer all thing. "
** Ben Franklin

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine. "
** Ben Franklin

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
** Ben Franklin

"I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did."
** Ben Franklin

"I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity."
** Ben Franklin

"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect."
** Ben Franklin

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of."
** Ben Franklin

"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."
** Ben Franklin

"He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face."
** Ben Franklin

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."
** Ben Franklin

"To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible."
** Ben Franklin

"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade."
** Ben Franklin

"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him."
** Ben Franklin

"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."
** Ben Franklin

"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."
** Ben Franklin

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
** Ben Franklin

"Experience is a dear teacher, and only fools will learn from no other."
** Ben Franklin