“ In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This… Benjamin Franklin
“ I am for doing good to the poor, but...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. I observed...that the more public prov… Benjamin Franklin
“ If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. Benjamin Franklin
“ That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God - when they become unfit… Benjamin Franklin
“ Work as if you were to live one hundred years pray as if you were to die tomorrow. Benjamin Franklin
“ Let they child's first lesson be obedience and the second will be what thou wilt. Benjamin Franklin
“ When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the… Benjamin 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. Benjamin Franklin
“ Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. Benjamin Franklin
“ Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon… Benjamin Franklin
“ He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. Benjamin Franklin
