Author of quotes: Benjamin Franklin. Page 1

Thrift. - To spend money only on what is beneficial to me or others, then there is nothing to waste.
Frugality. Make no Expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e. Waste nothing.

Determination. Decide to accomplish what needs to be done; strictly implement the decision.
Resolurion. Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

Order. Keep all your things in their places; each class have their time.
Order. Let all your Things have their Places. Let each part of your Business have its Time.

Silence. To speak only what may benefit others or yourself; avoid empty talk.
Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or your self. Avoid trifling conversation.

Abstinence. Eat not to satiety, not drink to intoxication.
Temperance. Eat not to Dulness. Drink not to Elevation.

Ever since people learned to cook food, they eat twice as much as nature requires.

Harsh diet arms the body against all external trouble. Therefore, it is not so easy to heat, cold and fatigue.

If you do not eat too much, never lazy.

For lunch, eat a little for dinner, even less, and even better to go to bed without dinner.

I have lived a lot, and the longer I live, the more I see convincing evidence of the truth that God governs in the Affairs of men. And if a Sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His knowledge, is it possible that an Empire could rise without His aid?
We believe in the words of Scripture that "unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it" (PS. 126:1). I firmly believe that, and I also believe that without appropriate assistance we will succeed in the political building no better than the builders of Babel: we share our little private interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves make a byword to future ages.

The refusal of king George III to allow the colonies to produce their own honest money, which was liberated the common man from the clutches of money brokers, was the main cause of the revolution.

Moving three is equal to one fire.

Too many people think about the protection instead of thinking about the possibility. They seem more afraid of life than death.

The strong one who managed to overcome their bad habits.