Benjamin Franklin: “Any other well-founded credit, is as much an equivalent as gold and silver; and in some cases more so, or it would not…”

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

It is comfortable to have a good opinion of one's self, and of every thing that belongs to us, to think one's own religion, king, and wife, the best of all possible wives, kings, and religions.

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

It is with a melancholy regret I think of his death; but to death we are all bound by the irreversible order of nature, and in looking forward to it, there is comfort in being able to reflect--that we have not lived in vain, and that all…