Benjamin Franklin Common Quotations

Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

Bright as the day and as the morning fair, Such Cloe is, & common as the air.

The problem with common sense is, it isn't.

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.

No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.

Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.

It's common for Men to give 6 pretended Reasons instead of one real one.