Benjamin Franklin: “The consciousness of his own innate worth and unshaken integrity renders him calm and undaunted in the presence of the…”

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

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.

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

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…