Benjamin Franklin: “Whereas in America, men bred to close employment in their private affairs, attend with ease to those of the public, when…”

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…

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…

As it is in my power, as far as my testimony will be regarded, to refute this charge, I think it due to our friendship to do it.

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