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.

As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.