If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again.Benjamin Franklin
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.Benjamin Franklin
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.Benjamin Franklin
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.Benjamin Franklin
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.Benjamin Franklin
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.Benjamin Franklin
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.Benjamin Franklin
