A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?

Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day.

All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?

Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens.