The Way to Wealth (Illustrated)
Your creditor has authority, at his pleasure, to deprive you of your liberty, by confining you in gaol for life, or by selling you for a servant, if you should not be able to pay him.
Benjamin Franklin • The Way to Wealth (Illustrated)
Get what you can, and what you get hold, 'Tis the stone that will turn all your lead into gold.
Benjamin Franklin • The Way to Wealth (Illustrated)
"One to-day is worth two to-morrows,"
Benjamin Franklin • The Way to Wealth (Illustrated)
"For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day."
Benjamin Franklin • The Way to Wealth (Illustrated)
If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor; you will be in fear when you speak to him; you will make poor pitiful sneaking excuses, and, by degrees, come to lose your veracity, and sink into base, downright lying; for, "The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt," as Poor Richard says; and again, t
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"It is easier to build two chimneys, than to keep one in fuel," as Poor Richard says: so, "Rather go to bed supper-less, than rise in debt,"
Benjamin Franklin • The Way to Wealth (Illustrated)
"When the well is dry, they know the worth of water."
Benjamin Franklin • The Way to Wealth (Illustrated)
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other,"
Benjamin Franklin • The Way to Wealth (Illustrated)
"Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy." When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, "It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it."