Sublime

Je ne voudrais rien omettre des louanges qu’on doit adresser à la philanthropie, mais simplement exiger justice pour tous ceux qui par leur vie et leurs œuvres sont une bénédiction pour l’humanité.

Fearing that his son would “break loose and go to sea,” Josiah took him on long walks through Boston to see other craftsmen, so that he could “observe my inclination and endeavor to fix it on some trade that would keep me on land.” This instilled in Franklin a lifelong appreciation for craftsmen and tradesmen.

Ben Franklin’s excellent advice: “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

These experiments (which were begun in the 1730s with his Junto colleague Joseph Breintnall, based on the theories of Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle) included putting cloth patches of different colors on snow and determining how much the sun heated each by measuring the melting. Later,

Un jour, Benjamin Franklin raconta qu’un nouveau venu dans son quartier demanda à l’un de ses voisins de lui rendre service en citant une vieille maxime : « Celui qui vous a déjà fait une faveur sera plus prompt à vous en faire une autre que celui que vous avez vous-même obligé

Even as the Continental Army huddled by fires at Valley Forge, Benjamin Franklin pulled off a magnificent diplomatic feat in the opulent ministries of Paris. On February 6 France recognized American independence through a pair of treaties: the first granting French goods most-favored-nation status in America, and the second committing the French to