Benjamin Franklin: “We have, it is true, had a long peace with the Indians: but it is a long peace indeed, as well as a long lane, that has…”

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…

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.

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

Few of their Children in the Country learn English . . . The Signs in our Streets have Inscriptions in both Languages, and in some places only [their language] . . . In short, unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned…