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
You may be more happy than Princes, if you will be more virtuous.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.
Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.