When in doubt, don't.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?

History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.

Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.

The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting.

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.