"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality. The scientific mind of Franklin drew on the scientific determinism of Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of David Hume and Gottfried Leibniz. In what became known as "Hume's Fork" the latters' theory distinguished between synthetic truths that describe matters of fact, and analytic truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition.
Benjamin FranklinDo not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin FranklinLost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
Benjamin Franklin