Many Have Been Ruined By Buying Good

It Might Be Judged An Affront To Your Understanding Should I Go About To Prove This First Principle; The Existence Of A Diety And That He Is The Creator Of The Universe, For That Would Suppose You Ignorant Of What All Mankind In All Ages Have Agreed In.

History Affords Us Many Instances Of The Ruin Of States, By The Prosecution Of Measures Ill Suited To The Temper And Genius Of Their People. The Ordaining Of Laws In Favor Of One Part Of The Nation, To The Prejudice And Oppression Of Another, Is Certainly The Most Erroneous And Mistaken Policy. ... These Measures Never Fail To Create Great And Violent Jealousies And Animosities Between The People Favored And The People Oppressed; Whence A Total Separation Of Affections, Interests, Political Obligations, And All Manner Of Connections, By Which The Whole State Is Weakened.

An Iron Rod Being Placed On The Outside Of A Building From The Highest Part Continued Down Into The Moist Earth, In Any Direction Strait Or Crooked, Following The Form Of The Roof Or Other Parts Of The Building, Will Receive The Lightning At Its Upper End, Attracting It So As To Prevent It's Striking Any Other Part; And, Affording It A Good Conveyance Into The Earth, Will Prevent Its Damaging Any Part Of The Building.

In Rivers And Bad Governments The Lightest Things Swim At Top.

Most People Dislike Vanity In Others, Whatever Share They Have Of It Themselves.