“The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.”
Author
Benjamin Franklin
1706–1790112 quotes
was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, forger and political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a drafter and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the first United States Postmaster General.
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“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.”
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
“He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.”
“All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.”
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
“You may delay, but time will not.”
“Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.”
“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.”
“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”
“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”
“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.”
“Beware the hobby that eats.”
“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.”