This is the initial Franklin category; we expect to branch off from this many times.
openlibrary.org has the full contents of an 1814 publication of Franklin’s Way to Wealth online here, readable as text or PDF. archive.org has the same pamphlet viewable gloriously here, with the bookplate of the Children’s Book Collection of the Library of UCLA and Elvah Karshner viewable inside the front cover. The alphabetical list of quotes starts on …
The Library Company of Philadelphia, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731, hosts a superb online exhibition called Benjamin Franklin, Writer and Printer by James N. Green and Peter Stallybrass on their website here. The LCP Home page is at www.librarycompany.org.
There is a nice article about Franklin’s quotes used in The Way to Wealth at a site called Pick The Brain. The author enumerates 78 proverbs from that essay, divided half as Industry and half as Frugality. The Library Company of Philadelphia has a fine online exhibition that discusses this essay here.
