Benjamin Franklin: “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…”

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

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

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…

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…