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
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.
I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.
A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.
Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.
An education is the investment with the greatest returns.
Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.
Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.
You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.