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
Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each line, Fair print and paper, fraught with sense divine; Tho' some, neglectful, seldom care to read, And faithful wives no more than bibles heed. Are women books? says Hodge, then would mine were An Almanack, to change her every year.
Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance
Innocence is its own defense.
The States acceded to the Union.
Prayers and Provender hinder no Journey.
The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.
Pen, wax and parchment govern the world.
No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.
If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.
The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.
He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others
Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.
A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it.
As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.