But, indeed, can we suppose that our all-wise and just Creator would have so ordered the affairs of the world that a wrong act should be the true method of attaining a right end?
It is impious to think so.

And I do verily believe, Benjamin, that almost all the public and private misery of mankind arises from a neglect of this great truth,--that evil can produce only evil,--that good ends must be wrought out by good means." "I will never forget it again," said Benjamin, bowing his head.
"Remember," concluded his father, "that, whenever we vary from the highest rule of right, just so far we do an injury to the world.

It may seem otherwise for the moment; but, both in time and in eternity, it will be found so." To the close of his life Ben Franklin never forgot this conversation with his father; and we have reason to suppose that, in most of his public and private career, he endeavored to act upon the principles which that good and wise man had then taught him.
After the great event of building the wharf, Ben continued to cut wick-yarn and fill candle-moulds for about two years.

But, as he had no love for that occupation, his father often took him to see various artisans at their work, in order to discover what trade he would prefer.

Thus Ben learned the use of a great many tools, the knowledge of which afterwards proved very useful to him.