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
Do well by doing good.
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.
Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.
Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.
I imagine it great vanity in me to suppose that the Supremely Perfect does in the least regard such an inconsiderable nothing as man. More especially, since it is impossible for me to have any positive, clear idea of that which is infinite and incomprehensible, I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
Tolerate no Uncleanliness in Body, Clothes, or Habitation.
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.
That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.
Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.
But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.
...Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion...
Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.
Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.
The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.