One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.
Industry need not wish.
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.
In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble.