If you have a secret and tell someone everyone will know. You can only keep a secret if you don't tell anyone.

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

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.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

He's gone, and forgot nothing but to say farewell to his creditors