Laurence Sterne

“People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.”

“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”

“I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.”

“I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.”

“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”

“Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.”

“Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.”