30 Benjamin Franklin quotes for anyone who loves US history

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.

The three hardest things in the world are: keeping a secret, forgiving an offense, and enjoying your time.

To bear the afflictions of others, everyone has enough courage.

Beware of small costs! A small crevice sinks large boats.

The pride that lunches on vanity dines on contempt.

There has never been a good war or a bad peace.

The tragedy of life is that we get old too soon. And wise, too late.

To think that the world does not have a creator is the same as saying that a dictionary is the result of an explosion in a typography.

To live is to face one problem after another. The way you look at it is what makes the difference.

At 20, the will is sovereign; at 30, the spirit; at 40, the reason.

Happiness is not produced by large strokes of fortune, which rarely occur, but by small advantages that occur every day.

Failure breaks small souls and makes great ones great, just as the wind blows out the candle and stokes the forest fire.

People who are good at making excuses are rarely good at anything else.

Work with pleasure and you will enjoy the work.

Be courteous to all, sociable to many, intimate with few, friend to one and enemy to none.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Don’t anticipate problems or worry about what may never happen. Enjoy the sunshine.

Love your enemies, because they tell you about your faults.

Whoever falls in love with himself has no rivals.

Write the offenses in the sand and the benefits in the marble.

Joy is the philosopher’s stone that turns everything into gold.

If your riches are yours, why don’t you take them with you to the next world?

There are men who go mad because they want to know too much. But who gives me a single one who has gone mad for wanting to be good?

When I enter a bookstore I am like a sultan when he enters a harem. I know what to do, but I don’t know where to start!

Before marriage the eyes must be wide open; after marriage, half-closed.

It’s impolite to shut up an idiot and cruel to let him go on.

To be content, look to those who have less than you, not to those who have more.

If a man could have half of his desires fulfilled, he would have double afflictions.

Peace and harmony: this is the true wealth of a family.

Take advice in wine, but decide later with water.