The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin - Analysis
Themes · Self-reflexivity · Warning against idleness, pride, and folly · Self- reliability · Remaining in one place · Industry · Trust in oneself · Be wary of others · Remaining in one place · Attending to one's affairs with care · Live modestly · Not to buy things one doesn't need · Save rather than spend · Buying excessively leads to want · Against vanity · Against pride · Against accruing debt · Against lying · God is crucial in success · Reason Devices and Style · Self-reflexivity I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. This pleasure I have seldom enjoyed; for tho' I have been, if I may say it without vanity, an eminent author of almanacs annually now a full quarter of a century, my brother au