You may learn a man's good qualities and advantages from his friends—his bad qualities and disadvantages from his enemies. Make due allowance for exaggeration in both.
Finally, examine carefully before engaging in anything, and act with energy afterward. Have the hundred eyes of Argus beforehand, and the hundred hands of Briarius afterward.
576. MAXIMS BY DR. FRANKLIN ON THE WAY TO WEALTH
God helps those who help themselves.
Many words won't fill a bushel.
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears.
The key often used is always bright.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
There will be time enough for sleep, in the grave.