Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

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.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.

Those who are fear'd, are hated.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.