Benjamin Franklin: “For my part, I never saw a forward child mended by whipping: and I would not have the mother become a step-mother."…”

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.

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

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.

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