After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."

The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it.

And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us better.] To electrise plus or minus, no more needs to be known than this, that the parts of the Tube or Sphere, that are rubb'd, do, in the Instant of Friction, attract the Electrical Fire, and therefore take it from the Thin rubbing; the same parts immediately, as the Friction upon them ceases, are disposed to give the fire they have received, to any Body that has less.

A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind

Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.