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
He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?
A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.
That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.
At a great pennyworth pause a while.
Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.
No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.
If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.
Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.
Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.
The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.
Reckless haste makes poor speed.
Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.