Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

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.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.