Benjamin Franklin: “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.

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

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…

They have no profitable appointments, but a mere payment of daily wages, such as are scarcely equivalent to their expences, so that having no chance for great places and enormous salaries or pensions, as in some countries, there is no…