| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 62206 |
| QUOTATION: | Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity—
Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy and wealth and wise.
As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. 1870. “The Late Benjamin Franklin,” p. 426, Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1852-1890, Library of America (1992). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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