Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day.

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.