156 Quotes By Benjamin Franklin


A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin on good

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin on good

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin Franklin on good

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin on good

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin on good

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin Franklin on good

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Benjamin Franklin on good

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin on good

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin on good

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin on good

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin on good

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Benjamin Franklin on good

Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin on good

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin on government

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin on government

Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin on great

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin on great

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin on great

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin on great

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin on great