Benjamin Franklin

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too sever, seldom executed.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins.

Beware of little Expences: a little leak will sink a great ship.

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

Creditors have better memories than debtors; they are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

Death takes no bribes.

Do good to thy friend to keep him -- to thine enemy to gain him.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

9 Men in 10 are suicides.

Each year, one vicious habit rooted out in time ought to make the worst man good.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Early morning hath gold in its mouth.

A wise Man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

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

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Eat few suppers and you'll need few medicines.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

The modest temple of wisdom.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.