Why should he have grown so very famous ?" "Your question is a reasonable one, George," answered his father.

"I doubt whether Franklin's philosophical discoveries, important as they were, or even his vast political services, would have given him all the fame which he acquired.

It appears to me that Poor Richard's Almanac did more than anything else towards making him familiarly known to the public.

As the writer of those proverbs which Poor Richard was supposed to utter, Franklin became the counsellor and household friend of almost every family in America.

Thus it was the humblest of all his labors that has done the most for his fame." "I have read some of those proverbs," remarked Edward; "but I do not like them.