He was the first great self-made man in America, a poor democrat born in an aristocratic age that his fine example helped to liberalize. Franklin - Autobiography
- Franklin lists 13 virtues: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.
- He elaborates on each with a maxim; for example, the temperance maxim is “Eat not to Dullness. Drink not to Elevation.”
- A pragmatic scientist, Franklin put the idea of perfectibility to the test, using himself as the experimental subject.
Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732 - Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732
- The Almanack contained the calendar, weather, poems, sayings and astronomical and astrological information that a typical almanac of the period would contain.
- Franklin also included the occasional mathematical exercise, and the Almanack from 1750 features an early example of demographics.
- It is chiefly remembered, however, for being a repository of Franklin's aphorisms and proverbs, many of which live on in American English.
- In the spaces that occurred between noted calendar days, Franklin included proverbial sentences about industry and frugality.
- In 1757, Franklin made a selection of these and prefixed them to the almanac as the address of an old man to the people attending an auction. This was later published as The Way to Wealth, and was popular in both America and England.
Franklin - “A Word to the Wise is enough,” he says.
- “God helps them that help themselves.”
- “Early to Bed, and early to rise, makes a Man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
- “A little Neglect may breed great Mischief”
- Thomas Jefferson
- Never spend your money before you have earned it.
- Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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