New Delhi, May 21 -- Benjamin Franklin, born in Boston in 1706, became one of the most versatile figures of the American Enlightenment: printer, publisher, author, inventor, scientist, diplomat and statesman. After being apprenticed to his brother as a printer, he moved to Philadelphia, built a successful publishing career, and became famous for Poor Richard's Almanack, which carried many of his practical aphorisms on industry, thrift and character. Franklin later helped draft the Declaration of Independence, represented the United States in France during the American Revolution, and served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention.

"Well done is better than well said."- Benjamin Franklin

The Franklin Institute attributes this quot...