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
Turn Turk Tim, and renounce thy Faith in Words as well as Actions: Is it worse to follow Mahomet than the Devil?
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.
No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.
Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.
Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.
Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith...
That it is better that 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved.
The nearest way to come at glory, is to do that for conscience which we do for glory.
Again, He that sells upon Credit, asks a Price for what he sells, equivalent to the Principal and Interest of his Money for the Time he is like to be kept out of it: therefore
The favor of the Great is no inheritance.