Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.