Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.[Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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