Benjamin Franklin: “The best will be, to let each enjoy their own opinions, without disturbing them, when they do not interfere with the…”

Yet had I gone at 70, it would have cut off 12 of the most active years of my life, employed too in matters of the greatest importance; but whether I have been doing good or mischief, is for time to discover.

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

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…

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