Benjamin Franklin
Quotations

"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals."

 

"To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light."

 

"In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money."

 

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

 

"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do."

- Autobiography

 

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

- Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746