Professions

• writer


• printer


• statesman


• inventor


• scientist


• ambassador


• musician


• university president


• assemblyman


• Justice of the Peace


• revolutionary


• abolitionist


• philosopher


• politician


• economist


• Postmaster General


• governor (formerly called the President of Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania)

Inventions & Ideas

• Daylight Savings Time


• Properties of Electricity


• Ben Franklin effect


• Franklin Stove


• Glass Armonica


• Lightning Rod


• Pay it Forward


• Bifocals


• Swim Fins


• Library Chair


• Extension Arm


• Whirlwinds


• Catheter


• Odometer


• Gulf Stream


• Vitamin C


• street lighting

Franklin Firsts:

• Political Cartoon


• Fire Department


• Fire Insurance Company


• Library


• Post Office


• Hospital


• Higher Education (University of Pennsylvania, later founded Franklin and Marshall College)

Quotes:

• An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
• Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
• Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
• Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
• Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
• Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.
• Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
• He that can have patience can have what he will.
• He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
• He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
• Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
• Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
• Well done is better than well said.
• Fish and visitors smell in three days.
• To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Thanks, big guy, for everything.