Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

In Christmas feasting pray take care; Let not your table be a Snare; but with the Poor God’s Bounty share.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies.

As to Jesus of Nazareth… I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to […]

I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works… I mean real good works… not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing… or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion. . . and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.

He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of Christianity, will revolutionize the world.

Let the child’s first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Teach your child to hold his tongue, He’ll learn fast enough to speak.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.