"Be ashamed to catch yourself idle...." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.”

“To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.”

“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.”

“I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work.”

“Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.”

“Whatever you do, do with all your might.”

“Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.”

“The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.”

“We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.”