Consistency and daily habits

What it means

Happiness comes less from rare strokes of luck than from small advantages that turn up every day. Franklin points to the value of the modest and the frequent.

About the author

Benjamin Franklin — American Founding Father and polymath (1706–1790).

Source and verification

Source

The Autobiography (1818), Part III, p. 108

Reference

Benjamin Franklin on Wikiquote

Checked

Wording and source taken from the sourced section of the author’s Wikiquote page, which cites the work given here (accessed 2026-10-11).

Copyright

Public domain: the author died in 1790.

The explanation above is ToDoMatriX’s own reading of the quote, not the author’s words.