Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) was a leading author, statesman, diplomat, politician, inventor, a scientist, the author of the Poor Richard's Alamanac a best seller pamphlet published in the American colonies from 1732 -1758.

Benjamin Franklin's sayings and wisdom are simple words of common sense, here is a collection of interesting, inspirational sayings and bits of wisdom by a very wise man, the man who invented the lightning rod, the Franklin stove and bifocal glasses.