Benjamin Franklin: “He, that wastes idly a groat's worth of his time per day, one day with another, wastes the privilege of using one…”

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

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.

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…