They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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.

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.

The best is the cheapest.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

If you have a bald head don't walk out in the sun because you will get burned.