Benjamin Franklin: “Will the wolves then protect the sheep, if they can but persuade them to give up their dogs?”

Yet had I gone at 70, it would have cut off 12 of the most active years of my life, employed too in matters of the greatest importance; but whether I have been doing good or mischief, is for time to discover.

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…

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

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