Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his enlargement, than to do, with greater cunning, what he did before with less.

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.