Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Those things that hurt, instruct
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting, that The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one makes you but even with him; forgiving... it sets you above him.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
They that will not be counseled cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason, she will rap you on the knuckles.
How many observe Christ's birth-day! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments.
Beware of the little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing (about).
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.
Don't judge a man's wealth, or his piety by his appearance on Sunday.
Well done is better than well said.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids. She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage. As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth, so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shown and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible; but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal. Conscious of this, she never wounds 'till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of treading on her.
Philadelphia Woman: "Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?" Ben Franklin: "A Republic, if you can keep it.“
Alas I know if I ever became truly humble I would be proud of it