The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

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.

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.