American polymath, a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
You may delay, but time will not.
Lost time is never found again.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
A place for everything, everything in its place.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.