The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Here are a few quotes from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin:

• Never confuse Motion with action.
• When the well is dry we know the value of water.
• Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself.
• In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
• It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.
• There are no gains without pains.
• Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
• I grew convinc'd that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life.