“He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books.”

“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.”

“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”

“After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.”

“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”

“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.”

“THE BODYofBENJAMIN FRANKLINPrinterlike the cover of an old book,its contents torn out,and stripped of its lettering and gilding lies here, food for worms;Yet the work itself shall not be lost,For it will (as he believed) appear once more,in a new,and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended By The AUTHOR”