Experiment ideas

September 1 through 6 Almanac information.
9/1 A man without a wife, is but half a man. ~ BF
BF and Deborah Read were married on this day in 1730.

9/2 The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk. ~ BF
This day, in 1789, the U.S. Department of the Treasury was established.

9/3 A cypher [zero] and humility make the other figures and virtues often-fold value. ~ BF
In 1714, BF was enrolled in Boston grammar school on this day at the age of 8. Also, the Treaty of Paris was signed on this day in 1783, ending the Revolutionary War.

9/4 If you wou'd not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing. ~ BF
In 1833, Barney Flaherty answered an ad in the New York Sun and became the first paperboy. But was he the first? Ben Franklin quotes in his autobiography, that when he apprenticed to his brother, "I was employed to carry the papers thro' the streets to the customers."

9/5 Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow. ~ BF
BF has many quotes related to a healthy work ethic. His most famous quote is probably: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

9/6 There was never a good war or a bad peace. ~ BF
This is the birthday of the Marquis de Lafayette, French solider who fought in the American Revolutionary War.

Wit and Wisdom

"Be not disturbed, O grave and serious reader, if among the many serious sentences in my book, thou findest the occasional pickle."

More Franklin Quotes

Biography of Benjamin Franklin

Index of 1753 Poor Richard's Almanack