Sublime

Arrivé sans le sou à Philadelphie à l’âge de dix-sept ans, il a fait fortune dans l’imprimerie ; il a su divertir le bon peuple de Pennsylvanie par ses petits essais cocasses et édifiants, il a su faire les délices, à Versailles, de la cour de Louis XVI ; il a démontré la nature électrique de la foudre et inventé le paratonnerre ; il a contribué à

I included under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurred to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short precept, which fully expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were: 1. Temperance. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. Silence. Speak not but what may bene

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.