10 Lessons From the Book The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the unfinished work of Benjamin Franklin about his life between 1771 to 1790.

Never confuse Motion with Action.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

When the well is dry we know the value of water

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations get corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.

There are no gains without pains.

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

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