Toasts and Sentiments

Ability to serve a friend, and honor to conceal it. May we learn to be frugal before we are obliged to be so. May we always forget when we forgive an injury. The cause of liberty throughout the world. May the honest heart never feel distress. Pleasures that please on reflection. May reason be the pilot when passion blows the gale. The woman we love, and the friend we dare trust. May we never feel want, nor ever want feeling. The enjoyment of a quiet conscience. Good trade, and well paid. Great men honest, and honest men great. May the evening's diversion bear the morning's reflection. May the friends we love be sincere, and the country we live in be free. More friends, and less need of them. Success to the soil, the fleece and the flail. May every day be happier than the last. Riches to the generous, and power to the merciful. May we draw upon content for the deficiencies of fortune. May we be happy when alone, and cheerful when in company. May we never desire what we cannot obtain. May virtue be our armour, when wickedness is our assailant. Merit to win a heart and sense to keep it. All Fortune's daughters but the eldest. May the trade of this country increase, and be supported by unity, peace, and concord. May the blossoms of liberty never be blighted. Riches without pride, or poverty without meanness. Perpetual disappointment to the enemies of the United States of America. Content in an easy chair, fortune in our pockets, and a fig for the follies of fashion. Love to one, friendship to a few, and good-will to all. May we never seek applause from party principles, but always deserve it from public spirit. Perpetual disappointment to the enemies of our country. May our conscience be sound, tho' our fortune be rotten. May power be influenced only by justice. May he who wants friendship also want friends. May authority be amiable, without debasing its dignity. May we be slaves to nothing but our duty, and friends to nothing but merit. May our distinguishing mark be merit rather than money. May we never destroy any person's credit to establish our own. The man who dares be honest in the worst of times. May those who inherit the title of gentlemen by birth, deserve it by their good behaviour. May our benevolence be bounded only by our fortune. May fortune be always attendant on virtue. May religion never be a cloak for guilt. May our hearts have for tenants, Truth, Candour, and Benevolence. Pleasures here and happiness hereafter. May we never taste the bitter apples of affliction. May we be rich in friends rather than money. May the woman we love be honest, and the land we live in free. May genius and merit never want a friend. May we always have a friend, and know his value. May the single be married and the married happy. Good-luck till we are tired of it. Sense to win a heart, and merit to keep it. May Providence unite the hearts that love. May we always be blest in what we like best. Constancy in love, and sincerity in friendship.