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
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.
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped
He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone.
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.