Benjamin Franklin

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Time is the stuff life is made of.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

Lying rides upon debt’s back.

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

Sometimes I think someone upstairs saved me from being ordinary.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

Those unproductive hands … may consume so great a share … that all the frugality and good conduct of individuals may not be able to compensate … this violent and forced encroachment.

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, so you have got to create a new history.

I don’t have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they’re all right for me.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

I apologize when I’m wrong.

Dr. Strauss says I should rite down what I think and remembir and every thing that happins to me from now on..

I don’t know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.

A lot of people always question, ‘What else can she do, what else can she do?’ And I’m going to show you

Idleness is the reason for many of our troubles.