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
Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.
At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.
Those who are fear'd, are hated.
They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.
As charms are nonsense, nonsense is a charm.
He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.
Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.
Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.
The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.
Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say and do as they ought.
I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.
He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard.
The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.
Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.