Laurence Sterne

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

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

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

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

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

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

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

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.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

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.