Benjamin Franklin: “It is a happy country where justice, and what was your own before, can be had for ready money.”

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

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…

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