Benjamin Franklin


Three can keep a secret, if two are dead.

The honest man takes pains, and then enjoys pleasures; the knave takes pleasure, and then suffers pain.

I hope…that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

From a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, July 27, 1783

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Poor Richard's Almanac

He’s a fool that makes his doctor his heir.


inscribed on a plaque in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty

Well done is better than well said.

