Benjamin Franklin: “And are not the public the only judges what share of reputation they think proper to allow any man?”

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

Few of their Children in the Country learn English . . . The Signs in our Streets have Inscriptions in both Languages, and in some places only [their language] . . . In short, unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned…

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