If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him.

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing

Let thy discontents be thy secrets

Constant dropping wears away stones