Ill Customs And Bad Advice Are Seldom

Many Would Live By Their Wits, But Break For Want Of Stock.

It Seems To Me, That If Statesmen Had A Little More Arithmetic, Or Were Accustomed To Calculation, Wars Would Be Much Less Frequent.

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.

Tis A Common Observation Here That Our Cause Is The Cause Of All Mankind, And That We Are Fighting For Their Liberty In Defending Our Own.

Sloth Makes All Things Difficult, But Industry All Things Easy.