Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.

When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us better.] To electrise plus or minus, no more needs to be known than this, that the parts of the Tube or Sphere, that are rubb'd, do, in the Instant of Friction, attract the Electrical Fire, and therefore take it from the Thin rubbing; the same parts immediately, as the Friction upon them ceases, are disposed to give the fire they have received, to any Body that has less.

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

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.