Inspirational Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
“After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.”
“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.”
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
topics: knowledge
“Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.”
“Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.”
topics: pleasure
“Wise Men learn by other's harms; Fools by their own.”
“A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.”
“Money has never made man happy, nor will it; There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has, the more one wants.”
“Fools need Advice most, but wise Men only are the better for it.”
“Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.”
topics: wisdom
“You tell me, and I forget You teach me, and I remember You involve me, and I learn”
“the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. if all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. ”
“The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.”
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Benjamin Franklin was an important conservative figure in the American Restoration Movement, especially as the leading antebellum conservative in the northern United States branch of the movement. He is notable as the early and lifelong mentor of Daniel Sommer, whose support of the 1889 Sand Creek Declaration set in motion events which led to the formal division of the Churches of Christ from the Disciples of Christ in 1906.
According to contemporary biographies "His early religious training was according to the Methodist faith, though he never belonged to any church until he united with the Disciples."
In 1856, Franklin began to publish the ultra-conservative American Christian Review, which he published until his death in 1878. Its influence, initially considerable, was said to have waned following the American Civil War. Franklin undertook a rigorous program of publication correspondence, and traveling lectures which took him to "many" U. S. states and Canada.
Franklin's last move was to Anderson, Indiana, where he lived from 1864 until his death.