As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.

The first blow is half the battle.

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.