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
Knowledge of the investment is most profitable
If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy.
A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.
Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.
The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.
Spare when young, and spend when old.
Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.
Idle hands are the devil's playthings.
I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.
The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have over matter, a few hundred years from now. We may learn how to remove gravity from large masses, and float them over great distances. Agriculture will double its produce with less labor. All diseases will surely be cured... even old age. If only the moral sciences could be improved as well. Perhaps men would cease to be wolves to one another... and human beings could learn to be human.
The world is run by the people who show up.
Success is the residue of planning.
Life is a kind of chess.