Benjamin Franklin: “I have heard, that nothing gives an author so great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by others.”

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

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…

If the treaty cannot be made as much to your advantage as to ours, don't make it.

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…