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Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.

—  Benjamin Franklin

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

—  Benjamin Franklin

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

—  Benjamin Franklin

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

—  Benjamin Franklin

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

—  Benjamin Franklin

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth.

—  Benjamin Franklin

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.

—  Benjamin Franklin

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

—  Benjamin Franklin

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

—  Benjamin Franklin

After three days men grow weary, of a wench , a guest, and weather rainy.

—  Benjamin Franklin