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
Benjamin Franklin quotes about
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Never confuse motion with action.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
He that rises late must trot all day.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Beauty and folly are old companions.
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.