Benjamin Franklin: “I am persuaded the body of the British people are our friends; but they are changeable, and by your lying gazettes may…”

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…

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

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…

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