Benjamin Franklin

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change read more

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its read more

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.

Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.

Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.