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
There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.
If better is possible, good is not enough
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them.
If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
Success has ruin'd many a man.
A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.
Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.
When passion rules, she never rules wisely.
There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.