American polymath, a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher
There never was a good knife made of bad steel.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Well done is better than well said.
Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.