Benjamin Franklin: “An immense sum! that the city of Paris might save every year, by the economy of using sunshine instead of candles.”

To strangers he was cold and reserved; but where he was intimate, no man indulged to more pleasantry and good humour.

If the treaty cannot be made as much to your advantage as to ours, don't make it.

With these sentiments he left England; but when, on his arrival in America, he found the war begun, and that there was no receding, no man entered more warmly into the interests of what he then considered as his country, in opposition to…

I wish old England were as happy in its government, but I do not see it.