Benjamin Franklin Benefits Quotations

Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.

Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing, its contributors therefore to the public Exigencies are not to be considered a Benefit on the Public, entitling the Contributors to the Distinctions of Honor and Power, but as the Return of an Obligation previously received, or as payment for a just Debt.