Inspirational Quotes on Benjamin Franklin

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”

“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”

“Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.”

“Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.”

“Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.”

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do”

“O vitae Philosophia dux! O virtutum indagatrix expultrixque vitiorum! Unus dies, bene et ex praeceptis tuis actus, peccanti immortalitati est anteponendus. translation (non-literal): O philosophy, life’s guide! O searcher of virtues and expeller of vices! Just a single day lived well and according to your lessons is to be preferred to an eternity of errors. — Cicero, As quoted in Ben Franklin’s Autobiography”

“In the conduct of my newspaper, I carefully excluded all libeling and personal abuse, which is of late years become so disgraceful to our country”

“Idle hands are the devil's playthings.”