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
A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.
He that's content hath enough.
If better is possible, good is not enough
Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much.
He that lives well, is learned enough.
Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
What have you wrought ... A Republic if you can keep it.
What has become clear to you since we last met ?
What's proper, is becoming: See the Blacksmith with his white Silk Apron!
Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you will be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrow's; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
Where there is hunger, law is not regarded;and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.
Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.