Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.

Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

In the dark, all cats are grey.

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.