Hope Of Gain Lessens Pain.

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.

Historians Relate Not So Much What Is Done As What They Would Have Believed.

The Only Thing That Is More Expensive Than Education Is Ignorance.

To The Haranguers Of The Populace Among The Ancients, Succeed Among The Moderns Your Writers Of Political Pamphlets And News-papers, And Your Coffee-house Talkers.

'tis His Honesty That Brought Upon Him The Character Of A Heretic.