More wisdom from Poor Richard’s Almanack:

• Diligence is the mother of good luck.
• Caesar did not merit the triumphal car more than he that conquers himself.
• Where Sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
• None are deceived, but they that confide.
• Approve not of him who commends all you say.
• Despair ruins some, Presumption many.
• ‘Tis easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
• Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.
• Men take more pains to mask than mend.
• As charms are nonsense, nonsense is a charm.
• As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.
• Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
• Honours change manners.
• Without justice courage is weak.
• A good man is seldom uneasie, an ill one never easie.
• A wicked hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.
• It is Ill-manners to silence a Fool, and Cruelty to let him go on.

“Bis dat qui cito dat,” he wrote. “He gives twice that gives soon; i.e. he will soon be called upon to give again.”