Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 40236-h.htm or 40236-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40236/40236-h/40236-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40236/40236-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. Text that has been changed to correct an obvious error is noted at the end of this ebook. MEMOIRS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN; WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. WITH HIS MOST INTERESTING ESSAYS, LETTERS, AND MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS; FAMILIAR, MORAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMICAL, AND PHILOSOPHICAL. SELECTED WITH CARE FROM ALL HIS PUBLISHED PRODUCTIONS, AND COMPRISING WHATEVER IS MOST ENTERTAINING AND VALUABLE TO THE GENERAL READER. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square. 1860. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by Harper & Brothers, In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. ESSAYS. Page The Way to Wealth; as clearly shown in the practice of an old Pennsylvania Almanac, entitled, "Poor Richard Improved" 5 On True Happiness 14 Public Men 16 The Waste of Life 22 Self-denial not the Essence of Virtue 25 On the Usefulness of the Mathematics 27 The Art of procuring Pleasant Dreams 31 Advice to a young Tradesman 37 Rules of Health 39 The Ephemera; an Emblem of Human Life. To Madame Brillon, of Passy 40 The Whistle. To Madame Brillon 42 On Luxury, Idleness, and Industry 45 On Truth and Falsehood 50 Necessary Hints to those that would be Rich 53 The Way to make Money plenty in every Man's Pocket 54 The Handsome and Deformed Leg 55 On Human Vanity 58 On Smuggling, and its various Species 62 Remarks concerning the Savages of North America 66 On Freedom of Speech and the Press 71 On the Price of Corn and the Management of the Poor 82