My Favorite List of Wisdom from Practical Ben Franklin, Founding Father for Modern Living

3.1 A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
3.2 All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
3.3 The doors of wisdom are never shut.
3.4 To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

2.1 A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
2.2 Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
2.3 Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
2.4 He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
2.4 Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
2.5 He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
2.6 I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
2.7 Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
2.8 If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

4.1 Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
4.2 The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself
4.3 Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
4.4 We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately
4.5 This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.