Benjamin Franklin jest autorem bardzo wielu trafnych powiedzeń. Najsłynniejsze z nich funkcjonują w codziennym języku.

• A penny saved is a penny earned.

• Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

• But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

• Diligence is the mother of good luck.

• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

• God helps those who help themselves.

• Honesty is the best policy.

• Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

• Lost time is never found again.

• Necessity never made a good bargain.

• Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

• Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

• There never was a good war or a bad peace.

• Time is money.

• penny = pence – pens
• diligence – gorliwość, pracowitość
• bargain – okazja (okazyjna cena)
• ill – tutaj: źle