There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.
We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.
He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.