Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen.
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.