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.

You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .

Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.