Intriguingly, this is what’s known as the “Ben Franklin effect”: when, after doing someone a favor, you actually begin to ...

Christmas thought of the day by Benjamin Franklin reflects on faith, practice, and moral conduct. The quote reminds readers ...

Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father, championed virtue over material wealth. His famous quote, 'What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue,' from Poor Richard's Almanack, urges a ...

Benjamin Franklin is best known as a Founding Father of the United States, with historians often referring to the Boston-born Franklin as the First American. Franklin lived in era where men and women ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to fly a ...

Benjamin Franklin’s line is often quoted at graduations and printed on classroom walls. Its value lies not in inspiration, ...

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Benjamin Franklin was many things. Politician, scientist, inventor, printer author, he was a visionary whose ideas helped shape America. But he also had some notions that, while founded on sound logic ...