Benjamin Franklin: “Cruel parsimony! to refuse the charity of a little understanding, when God had given you so much, and the assembly…”

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…

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

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