Benjamin Franklin: “Yes; the assembly would destroy all their own rights, and those of the people; and the proprietary partizans are become…”

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.

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

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

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…