Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. – Benjamin Franklin
Were it offered to my choice, 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 in the first. – Benjamin Franklin
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. – Benjamin Franklin
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. – Benjamin Franklin
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. – Benjamin Franklin
And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. – Benjamin Franklin
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. – Benjamin Franklin
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. – Benjamin Franklin
For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly. – Benjamin Franklin
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. – Benjamin Franklin