I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining;… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
