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
The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.
Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.
Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.
A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.
Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.
Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.
A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.
He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.
Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.
He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others
In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.
Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.
Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.
God bless the King, and grant him long to Reign.