Laws without morals are in vain.

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

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.