The way to fame, is like the way to heaven,--through much tribulation. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
There are many ways of inducing sleep--the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it to some smooth… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Every obstruction of the course of justice,--is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us of those blessings which it has… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make… — 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
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The circumstances with which every thing in this world is begirt, give every thing in this world its size and shape;--and by… — 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!… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest… — 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
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
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
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
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
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
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
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
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
Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
“Button-holes! there is something lively in the very idea of 'em - and trust me, when I get amongst 'em - you gentry with… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
