Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin published Poor Richard’s Almanack from 1732 to 1758 and helped draft the Declaration of Independence. The Way to Wealth (1758) strings together maxims from the almanacs in the speech of an old man, Father Abraham, so each line there is “as Poor Richard says”.
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry.
But, dost thou love life? then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of,
Lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.