Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Display is as false as it is costly.

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

Women are books, and men the readers be.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

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.