The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.

Success has ruin'd many a man.

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.

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.