They say women and music should never be dated.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.

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.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

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

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.