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
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Our necessities never equal our wants.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
The discontented man finds no easy chair.
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Fatigue is the best pillow.
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.