If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.

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

He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.