The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.