Benjamin Franklin Gold Quotations

The proof of gold is fire...

I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.

The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.

What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.

A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.

Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.

The proof of gold is fire, the proof of woman, gold; the proof of man, a woman.

Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold

A fine genius in his own country, is like a gold in the mine.