If You Were To Make Little Fishes

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.

Turn, Gentle Hermit Of The Dale, And Guide My Lonely Way To Where Yon Taper Cheers The Vale With Hospitable Ray.

Measures, Not Men, Have Always Been My Mark.

We Sometimes Had Those Little Rubs Which Providence Sends To Enhance The Value Of Its Favors.

To Husband Out Life's Taper At The Close, And Keep The Flames From Wasting By Repose.