18th Century and Later Staffordshire nursery plates. 1) Dr Franklin's Maxim's - Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open, If you would have a faithful servant and one the you like, serve yourself. 2) Sloth like rust consumes faster than labour wears, while the used key is always bright, God Helps them that help themselves. Lost time is never found again. 3) We Devote our youth to God, Tis Pleasing in his eyes, a flower when offered in the Bud, is no vain sacrifice.