If You Would Be Wealthy,

Constant Complaint Is The Poorest Sort Of Pay For All The Comforts We Enjoy.

My Rule, In Which I Have Always Found Satisfaction, Is, Never To Turn Aside In Public Affairs Through Views Of Private Interest; But To Go Straight Forward In Doing What Appears To Me Right At The Time, Leaving The Consequences With Providence.

An Undutiful Daughter Will Prove An Unmanageable Wife.

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.

Be Temperate In Wine, In Eating, Girls, & Sloth; Or The Gout Will Seize You And Plague You Both.