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.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their verdure, the linnets to warble forth their notes of love, and the flocks and herds to frisk over vales painted with flowers: yet, who is there so insensible of the beauties of nature, so little delighted with the renovation of the world, as not to feel his heart bound at the mention of the spring?

The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.

Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.

There should be a stated day for commemorating the birthday of our Savior, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.