Quotes By Author: Benjamin Franklin

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

“Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

“Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.[Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as “Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.”]”