If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.

When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.

If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.