For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.