If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

The early morning has gold in its mouth.

He that's secure is not safe.

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.