"He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to better, discovered to…"

"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn."

"Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?"

"A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams."

"In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung."

"The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day: Now spurs the lated traveler apace To gain the timely inn."

"You may go to Carlisle's and to Almanac's too; And I'll give you my Head if you find such a Host, For Coffee, Tea, Ch…"

"He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern!—holy, because no…"

"Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, recline…"

"Alone the varying road of life, In calm content, in toil or strife, At morn or noon, by night or day, As time conduct…"