Benjamin Franklin — "To be rich is to have many servants, to be poor is to have many masters."

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing."

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."

"It is universally well known, That in digesting our common Food, there is created or produced in the Bowels of human Creatures, a great Quantity of Wind. That the permitting this Air to escape and mix…"