If you have a secret and tell someone everyone will know. You can only keep a secret if you don't tell anyone.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.

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.

Man is a tool-making animal