Benjamin Franklin

Anger is never without a Reason, but seldom with a good One.

The way to be safe, is never to be secure.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Our opinions are not in our own power; they are formed and governed much by circumstances that are often as inexplicable as they are irresistible.

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.

What is wit, or wealth, or form, or learning, when compared with virtue?

Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.