Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.

I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.

The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.

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.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

What you would seem to be, be really.