1To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Collinson, 12 November 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...Friends which form so considerable a Part of my Happiness in the midst of my apparent Prosperity; they kindly visit me here; as all the best Families do around us— This Testimony of the Worlds Discrimination between Misfortune, and intentional Evil, affords me no small Comfort; and the more so—as my own Conscience acquits me of ever forming any Design to injure any Man— Pardon this...