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
...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.
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Success has ruin'd many a man.
If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
Those who laugh often never grow old.
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them.
An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.
If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have not in their turns been persecutors and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution in the Romish Church, but practised it upon the Puritans. They found it wrong in Bishops, but fell into the practice themselves both there (England) and New England.
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.
In the dark, all cats are grey.
Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
If better is possible, good is not enough