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
The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.
Nothing preaches better than the act.
Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money
Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.
You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.
Beer is proof that God loves us.
Moderation in all things - including moderation.
Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies.
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
Do not do that which you would not have known.
If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?
When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.