The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There is no gains without pain.

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.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Little rogues easily become great ones.