He That Is Conscious Of

The Sleeping Fox Catches No Poultry.

That As We Enjoy Great Advantages From The Inventions Of Others, We Should Be Glad Of An Opportunity To Serve Others By Any Invention Of Ours, And This We Should Do Freely And Generously.

And We Daily In Our Experiments Electrise Bodies Plus Or Minus, As We Think Proper. [these Terms We May Use Till Your Philosophers Give Us Better.] To Electrise Plus Or Minus, No More Needs To Be Known Than This, That The Parts Of The Tube Or Sphere, That Are Rubb'd, Do, In The Instant Of Friction, Attract The Electrical Fire, And Therefore Take It From The Thin Rubbing; The Same Parts Immediately, As The Friction Upon Them Ceases, Are Disposed To Give The Fire They Have Received, To Any Body That Has Less.

I Was Surprised To Find Myself So Much Fuller Of Faults Than I Had Imagined, But I Had The Satisfaction Of Seeing Them Diminish.

Rules Too Soft Are Seldomly Followed; Rules Too Harsh Are Seldomly Executed.