This almanac had a wide mixture of content that included: weather forecasts, poems, news stories, calendar, useful household tips, puzzles, astronomical and astrological information.
Benjamin Franklin admitted himself, that many of the proverbs and aphorisms found in "Poor Richard's Almanack" were gathered from the wisdom of the ages and nations.
The dictum and maxims were from the Bible, the ancients, and collections of proverbs.
Here are my favorite 11 Ben Franklin quotes on religion, education, beer, freedom, poverty and other topics:
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."
small, man
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
beer, proof, love, happy
"Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices."
virtues, vices
"Men forget but never forgive. Women forgive but never forget."
forget, women, men, forgive
"Love your neighbor; yet don't pull down your hedge."
love, neighbor
"Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a folly."
silence, wisdom, folly
“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
die, people
“Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”
anger, shame
“Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see.”
believe, hear, see
“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”
reading, man, profound
“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.”
man, pleasure, selling