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
When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.
Every Man has Assurance enough to boast of his honesty, few of their Understanding.
Don't value a man for the Quality he is of, but for the Qualities he possesses.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
If a man could half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
If a Man casually exceeds, let him fast the next Meal, and all may be well again, provided it be not too often done; as if he exceed at Dinner, let him refrain a Supper, &c.
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.
Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.
To the discontented man no chair is easy
For 6 l. a Year, you may have the Use of 100 l. if you are a Man of known Prudence and Honesty.