Benjamin Franklin: “Our blessed saviour reproaches the Pharisees with laying heavy burdens on men's shoulders, which they themselves would…”

As it is in my power, as far as my testimony will be regarded, to refute this charge, I think it due to our friendship to do 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.

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.