2,150 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

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

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices.

A father's treasure; a brother's comfort; a friend is both.

You may delay, but time will not

Houses, ships, and even towns and churches may be effectually secured from the stroke of lightning by their means.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, disclosure a clear man.

Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

It has pleased God in his goodness to mankind, at length to discover to them the means of securing their habitations and other buildings from mischief by thunder and lightning.