Benjamin Franklin: “And if I draw ill ones, can they fit any but those that deserve them?”

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…

Franklin's hand, in conjunction with his brethren of the learned committee, that compound of fraud and folly was unveiled, and received its death-wound.

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