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 man is not completely born until he is dead.
It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.
After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.
When men are employed they are best contented.
Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !
The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.
Twas Noah who first planted the vine And mended his morals by drinking its wine.
Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.
Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.
What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.
I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.
A dying man can do nothing easy.
Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.