Benjamin Franklin

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Desire Happiness Human

Half the truth is often a great lie.

Deception Honesty Truth

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

Ethics Liberty Power

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Motivational Procrastination Success

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Friendship Money

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

War

Lost time is never found again.

Productivity Regret Time

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Growth Improvement Relationships

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Awareness Ignorance Knowledge

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Improvement Motivational Perseverance

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Death Hope Life

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Education Experience Learning

Honesty is the best policy.

Ethics Integrity Morality

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Actions Motivational

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Love Marriage Relationships

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Beauty

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

Life Mortality Motivational

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Habits Health Productivity

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Freedom Politics Security

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Communication Privacy Wisdom