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
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!
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.
Eat to live, don't live to eat.
Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.
To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.
So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.
The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.
Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind
It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.
What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.