Benjamin Franklin: “Be niggards of advice on no pretence; For the worst avarice is that of sense.”

Few of their Children in the Country learn English . . . The Signs in our Streets have Inscriptions in both Languages, and in some places only [their language] . . . In short, unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned…

But if I were in his place, and not otherwise instructed, I should be apt to say, Take your own time, gentlemen.

Franklin's hand, in conjunction with his brethren of the learned committee, that compound of fraud and folly was unveiled, and received its death-wound.

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