Inspirational Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”
“To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.”
“A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.”
“Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.”
“Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils. The unhappy man who has been treated as a brute animal, too frequently sinks beneath the common standard of the human species. The galling chains, that bind his body, do also fetter his intellectual faculties, and impair the social affections of his heart… To instruct, to advise, to qualify those, who have been restored to freedom, for the exercise and enjoyment of civil liberty… and to procure for their children an education calculated for their future situation in life; these are the great outlines of the annexed plan, which we have adopted. [ ]”
“He who can have patience can have what he will.”
“You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.”
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“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”
“For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.”
“So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.”
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“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.”
“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”
“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”
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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.