Benjamin Franklin: “I know of nothing else they can have in view: the notion that prevails here, of their being desirous to set up a kingdom…”

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.

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…