Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Books

• Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Teacher, Atheist

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.102, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Reading, Knowledge

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

• For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Library, Purses

• He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Reading, Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

• I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Memories, Book, Hands

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

• Women are books, and men the readers be.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Men, Reader

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.115, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Wit, Miscellaneous

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.131, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• Read much, but not too many books.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, 4th Of July

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.49, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Tombstone, Lying, Book

• Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Years, Religion

  Benjamin Franklin (1806). “The Complete Works, in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Now First Collected and Arranged: With Memoirs of His Early Life”, p.79

• From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Hands, Littles

  "The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living".

• My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Father, Book, Library

  Source: www.foundingfatherquotes.com

• Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each line, Fair print and paper, fraught with sense divine; Tho' some, neglectful, seldom care to read, And faithful wives no more than bibles heed. Are women books? says Hodge, then would mine were An Almanack, to change her every year.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Women, Book, Years

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.115, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Morning, Book, Reading

• When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Vegetarianism, Vegetables

  Benjamin Franklin “Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography”, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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