“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1735)

About Benjamin Franklin

1706 – 1790

American statesman, scientist, printer and writer, who published 'Poor Richard's Almanack' for many years.

“Well done is better than well said.”

“Thou canst not joke an Enemy into a Friend; but thou may'st a Friend into an Enemy.”

“He that lives upon Hope will die fasting.”

“The universe is flux, life is opinion.”

“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”

“What is truth but to live for an idea?”

“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”

“Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.”

“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”