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.

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.

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