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
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
Opportunity is the great bawd.
Where security exists, liberty and opportunity do not.
Out of adversity comes opportunity.
That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.
There is no man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.
If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.