Change is not made without inconvenience.

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.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.

The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.