God Helps Those Who Help Themselves.

A Man Wrapped Up In Himself Makes A Very Small Bundle.

Onions Can Make Even Heirs And Widows Weep.

A Full Belly Makes A Dull Brain: The Muses Starve In A Cook's Shop.

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.

I Was Put To The Grammar-school At Eight Years Of Age, My Father Intending To Devote Me, As The Tithe Of His Sons, To The Service Of The Church.