Benjamin Franklin Common Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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