“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

— Benjamin Franklin · Action quote

Founding Father, inventor · 1706 – 1790

American polymath - printer, scientist, diplomat - and a Founding Father of the United States.

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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Well done is better than well said.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.

For Europe, for ourselves, and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.