Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?

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.

Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.

I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

Handle your tools without mittens.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.