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

The city was founded in 1799 by Abram Maury Jr., who initially planned to name it Marthasville after his wife; however, Martha insistent the town be named in honor of Franklin, who was a close friends ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...

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 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 ...