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.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

At a great pennyworth pause a while.

History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious character among private persons; the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.