"A man may, if he knows not..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.”

“Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.”

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”

“If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.”

“He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.”

“If you want to be rich, think of the savings and get them.”

“I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.”

“The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.”

“Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.”