Sofia

“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."]”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin Volume 2

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston Churchill

“Well done is better than well said.”
― Benjamin Franklin