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
Let the Letter stay for the Post, and not the Post for the Letter
Lovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
Poor Dick, eats like a well man, and drinks like a sick
Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin.
Nick's Passions grow fat and hearty; his Understanding looks consumptive!
Learn of the skilful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
Many men die at twenty- five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.
Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Old Hob was lately married in the Night, What needed Day, his fair young Wife is light.
One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults
None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing