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
Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin.
Nick's Passions grow fat and hearty; his Understanding looks consumptive!
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never
Let the Letter stay for the Post, and not the Post for the Letter
Love thy neighbor -- but don't pull down your hedge.
Lovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Learn of the skilful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
Many men die at twenty- five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.
Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Old Hob was lately married in the Night, What needed Day, his fair young Wife is light.
Silks and Satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen fire
Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion