"The only certain things in life are..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.”

“In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”

“What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.”

“Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.”

“That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.”

“My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.”

“Be it life or death, we crave only reality.”

“I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I know. Nonsense! I'll defy them to do it. They have n't got life enough in them.... Only half a dozen or so have died since the world began.”

“She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.”