Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (17 Æfterra Gēola 1706 - 17 Ēastermōnaþ 1790) wæs Americanisc āfindere, spellwrītere, gemǣlere, and rīcesmann.

• Cneordnes is sēo mōdor gōdre spēde
  • "Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Sē þe wolde on friðe and ēaðe libban, ne sceall sprecan eall þæt hē wāt, ne dēman eall þe hē siehþ.

Mid fruman

• Gemun þæt tīma is feoh.
  • Remember that time is money.
  • Advice to a Young Tradesman (1748)

• Nǣfre wæs gōd gūþ oþþe yfel friþ.
  • There never was a good war or a bad peace.
  • Gewrit tō Josiah Quincy (11 Hāligmōnaþ, 1783)

• Ealle þā gedwildmenn þe ic ǣr wiste wǣron ǣr þēawfæste weras.
  • All the heretics I have known have been virtuous men.
  • Gewrit tō Benjamin Vaughan (24 Winterfylleþ, 1788)

• Ic þence þæt se betsta weg tō dōnne gōd tō þǣm earmum, nis tō settenne hīe on īeðnesse in earmðe, ac tō lǣdenne oþþe tō drīfenne hīe þǣrūt.
  • I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
  • On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor (29 Blōtmōnaþ, 1766)