Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Time is money.

Lost time is never found again.

You may delay, but time will not.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Applause waits on success.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.