The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.

It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

I am lord of myself, accountable to none.

What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

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.