Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklinwas one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He facilitated many civic organizations, including...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth17 January 1706
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
For 6 l. a Year, you may have the Use of 100 l. if you are a Man of known Prudence and Honesty.
Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Youth, Age, and Sick require a different Quantity.
Ever since Follies have pleas'd, Fools have been able to divert
Never spare the Parson's wine, nor Baker's Pudding.
Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors