Benjamin Franklin Friends Quotations

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.