Benjamin Franklin

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment

To cease to think creatively is but little different from ceasing to live

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing

He that can have patience can have what he will

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself

Beauty and folly are old companions

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

A penny saved is a penny earned

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it form him

The doors of wisdom are never shut