Poor Richard's Almanack

by Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading Or do things worth writing.

Lend money to an enemy and you will gain him, to a friend and you will lose him.

Beware of little expenses, a small leak will sink a great ship.

In success be moderate.

Humility makes great men twice honourable.

As pride increases, fortune declines.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the Philosophers-Stone.

Rather go to bed supperless, than run in debt for a Breakfast.

A Pair of good ears will drain dry an hundred tongues. If you’d know the value of money, go and borrow some.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Ability will command Business, Business Wealth;