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
Mad kings and mad bulls are not to be held by treaties and packthread.
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never
Let the Letter stay for the Post, and not the Post for the Letter
Love thy neighbor -- but don't pull down your hedge.
Lovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Learn of the skilful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
Many men die at twenty- five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.
Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
When 'tis fair be sure take your Great coat with you
We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.
Mr. Lincoln, I believe your grandfather was a farmer in Pennsylvania,
Men take more pains to mask than to mend.