Wisdom Is Timeless! Consider the following from the late B. Franklin:

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor."

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."

"A place for everything, everything in its place."

"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."

"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. "

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

"God helps those who help themselves"

"Half a truth is often a great lie."

"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."

"He that lives upon hope will die fasting"

"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner."

"He that won't be counseled can't be helped."　

"Honesty is the best policy"

"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them"