American polymath, a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher
Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.
Remember that credit is money.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Beware the hobby that eats.
I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.