It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!