Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.
In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble.
Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.
Eat what you like, but dress for other people.
Lost time is never found again.