"Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but..." - Quote by Earl Wilson

“Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.”

“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.”

“If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.”

“No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.”

“Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.”

“Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.”

“I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.”

“That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.”

“That is simple. In the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay.”