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Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

—  Benjamin Franklin

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

—  Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.

—  Benjamin Franklin

A false friend and a shadow stay around only while the sun shines.

—  Benjamin Franklin

Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.

—  Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten,? Either write things worthy reading, Or do things worth the writing.

—  Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

—  Benjamin Franklin

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.

—  Benjamin Franklin

It is better to be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

—  Benjamin Franklin

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

—  Benjamin Franklin