By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

Handle your tools without mittens.

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.

At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter

They that study much, ought not to eat so much as those that work hard, their Digestion being not so good.

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