“Our judgments, like our watches, nonego just alike, yet each believes his own”

“Averse alike to flatter, or offend;Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.”

“In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;Alike fantastic, if too new, or old:Be not the first by whom the new are tried,Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”

“Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true,But are not critics to their judgment, too?”

“Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground.”

“How happy he, who free from careThe rage of courts, and noise of towns; Contented breathes his native air,In his own grounds”

“Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.”