The Wit & Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin

"When you're an Anvil, hold your sill, when you're a Hammer, strike your fill."

"William because his wife was something ill, uncertain in her health, indifferent still, h trn'd her out of doors, without reply: I ask'd if he that act could justif. In sickness and in health, says he, I am bound to keep her, when she's worse or better found, I'll take her in again, and now ou'll see, she'll quickly either mend or end, says he."

"Many princes sin with David, but few repent with him."

"To be intimate with a foolish Friend, is like oing to Bed with a Razor."

"You may sometimes be much in the wrong, in owning your being in the right."

"He is a Governor that governs his Passions, and he a Servant that serves them."

"Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate."