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to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise," as Poor Richard says.
So what signifies wishing and hoping for better times? We may make these times better if we bestir ourselves. "Industry need not wish: and, He that lives upon hope will die fasting. There are no gains without pains; then Help hands, for I have no lands," or, if I have, they are smartly taxed. "He that hath a trade, hath an estate; and he that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honour," as Poor Richard says; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes.—If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, "At the working man's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter." Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for, "Industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them." What though you have found no treasure, nor has any rich relation left you a legacy, "Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep, while fluggards sleep, and you shall have
