Franklin, Benjamin

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

absence

Franklin, Benjamin

Well done is better than well said.

action

Franklin, Benjamin

Beauty and folly are old companions.

beauty

Franklin, Benjamin

Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination.

cunning

Franklin, Benjamin

Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.

danger

Franklin, Benjamin

[I am] lord of myself, accountable to none.

independence

Franklin, Benjamin

One today is worth two tomorrows.

inspiration

Franklin, Benjamin

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

kindness

Franklin, Benjamin

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

law

Franklin, Benjamin

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

liberty

Franklin, Benjamin

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

love

Franklin, Benjamin

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

marriage

Franklin, Benjamin

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

marriage

Franklin, Benjamin

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

marriage

Franklin, Benjamin

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and...the state in which you will find solid happiness.

marriage

Franklin, Benjamin

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

wealth

Franklin, Benjamin

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

work