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.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Laws without morals are in vain.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.