"Take time for all things...." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Taxes are indeed very heavy -We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness.Three times as much by our Pride.And four times as much by our Folly.”

“Lying rides upon debt's back.”

“We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.”

“Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.”

“Don't start the day until you have it finished. Don't start the week until you have it finished. Don't start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day.”

“My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.”

“She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.”

“We boil at different degrees.”

“It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.”