By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.