Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

The saying counsels against “borrowing trouble”—projecting anxiety into an imagined future—and urges attention to the present and to what is within one’s control. “Keep in the sunlight” functions as a metaphor for maintaining a hopeful, clear-minded outlook rather than dwelling in fear or pessimism. The sentiment aligns broadly with Franklin’s practical moral advice (industry, temperance, prudence) and with older proverbial wisdom about needless worry. However, while the idea is Franklinian in tone, the specific phrasing is widely treated as a later attribution rather than a securely documented Franklin quotation.