If he had turned his mind towards a military profession, he would have made another General Scott, or towards politics, another Jefferson; or, if he had not happened to have gone to the town of Plymouth, I do not believe there would ever have been a clock made there.

He was the great originator of wood clock-making by machinery in Connecticut.

I like to see every man have his due.

Thomas and many others who have made their fortunes out of his ingenuity, were very willing to talk against him, for they must, of course, act out human nature.

Seth Thomas was in many respects a first-rate man.