Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.

If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both.

Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.

You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn.