Source: Quoted by Gerald Gawalt in " In His Own Words: Library Exhibition Celebrates Tercentenary of Benjamin Franklin's Birth https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0601/franklin.html"

“Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen. ”

Benjamin Franklin

“Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few. ”

Benjamin Franklin

“Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended.”

Benjamin Franklin

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”

Benjamin Franklin

“If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will. ”

Benjamin Franklin

“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. ”

Benjamin Franklin

“He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he see. ”

Benjamin Franklin

“He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ”

Benjamin Franklin

“Time is money.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Sloth makes all things difficult. ”

Benjamin Franklin