Benjamin Franklin: “Nobody asks leave to pay a debt: every Briton is your debtor, sir: and all we have said, or can say, is but a poor…”

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.

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

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.

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.