Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75.
It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on