“Then plough deep, while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.”

“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.”

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

“I do not pretend to give such a sum; I only lend it to you. When you shall return to your country with a good character, you cannot fail of getting into some business, that will in time enable you to pay all your debts. In that case, when you meet with another honest man in similar distress, you must pay me by lending this sum to him; enjoining him to discharge the debt by a like operation, when he shall be able, and shall meet with such another opportunity. I hope it may thus go through many hands, before it meets with a knave that will stop its progress. This is a trick of mine for doing a deal of good with a little money.”

“Work while it is called today for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow.”

“...there will be sleeping enough in the grave....”

“He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.”