Benjamin Franklin: “But our private interests never clashed; and all their resentment against me, and mine to them, has been on the public…”

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.

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.

To strangers he was cold and reserved; but where he was intimate, no man indulged to more pleasantry and good humour.