He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. – Benjamin Franklin
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. – Benjamin Franklin

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. – Benjamin Franklin
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. – Benjamin Franklin
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. – Benjamin Franklin
The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth…. It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air. – William Gilmore Simms, Egeria: Or, Voices of Thought and Counsel for the Woods a