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
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds/ If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.
A Man without ceremony has need of great merit in its place.
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.
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
There never was a good war nor a bad peace.
Punch-coal, cut-candle, and set brand on end, is neither good house wife, nor good house-wife's friend.
Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt
Rain or Snow, / To Chili go, / You'll find it so,/ For ought we know./Time will show.
Promises may get thee Friends, but Nonperformance will turn them into Enemies.
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.
Fear not Death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.