Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.

Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.

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.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors.