An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

… I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe… Polly Baker

Well done is better than well said.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to...

He that lives upon hope will die farting.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

The Things which hurt, instruct.

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts!

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

Nine men in ten are suicides.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

…as I am not fond of giving advice,having seldom seen it taken

Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.