Quotes by Franklin, Benjamin

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at for >>

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work gre >>

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to >>

Quotations about Farming and Farmers

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born >>

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up th >>

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling >>

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

Franklin, Benjamin