None are deceived but they that confide.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

If you want to be rich, think of the savings and get them.

If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.