Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.

What can laws do without morals?

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.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.