Benjamin Franklin

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or controul the Right of another: And this is the only Check it ought to suffer, and the only Bounds it ought to know.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.

Handle your tools without mittens.

Some are weather-wise some are otherwise.

If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Wealth is not his that has it but his who enjoys it.

If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as of getting.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.