Observe All Men, Thyself Most.

Chess Is So Interesting In Itself, As Not To Need The View Of Gain To Induce Engaging In It; And Thence It Is Never Played For Money

We Are Not Certain, We Are Never Certain. If We Were We Could Reach Some Conclusions, And We Could, At Last, Make Others Take Us Seriously. In This World Nothing Can Be Said To Be Certain, Except Death And Taxes.

A Flatterer Never Seems Absurd: The Flatter'd Always Takes His Word.

I Wish It (christianity) Were More Productive Of Good Works ... I Mean Real Good Works ... Not Holy Day Keeping, Sermon-hearing ... Or Making Long Prayers, Filled With Flatteries And Compliments Despised By Wise Men, And Much Less Capable Of Pleasing The Deity.

The Electrical Matter Consists Of Particles Extremely Subtile, Since It Can Permeate Common Matter, Even The Densest Metals, With Such Ease And Freedom As Not To Receive Any Perceptible Resistance. If Anyone Should Doubt Whether The Electrical Matter Passes Through The Substance Of Bodies, Or Only Over Along Their Surfaces, A Shock From An Electrified Large Glass Jar, Taken Through His Own Body, Will Probably Convince Him. Electrical Matter Differs From Common Matter In This, That The Parts Of The Latter Mutually Attract, Those Of The Former Mutually Repel Each Other.