American polymath, a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher
Beauty and folly are old companions.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Applause waits on success.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.