He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

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.

The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.

If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.