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
Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70.
A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
The best of all medicines is resting and fasting
The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
The best is the cheapest.