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
The busy man has few idle visitors, to the boiling pot, the flies come out.
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.
A true great Man will neither trample on a Worm, nor sneak to an Emperor.
A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten thousands are devoured by men
Strange, that he who lives by Shifts, can seldom shift himself.
Strange! that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satyr; should have folly enough to publish it.
Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller.
No workman without tools,/ Nor Lawyer without Fools,/ Can live by their Rules.
No man's life, liberty or fortune is safe while our legislature is in session.
Defer not thy well-doing; be not like St. George, who is always a horseback, and never rides on.
Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.
Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten, Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred
No Resolution of Repenting hereafter, can be sincere.
A fine genius in his own country, is like a gold in the mine.