Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another ma…

- Laurence Sterne

Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fil…

- Laurence Sterne

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

- Laurence Sterne

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

- Laurence Sterne

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable de…

- Laurence Sterne

The sad vicissitude of things.

- Laurence Sterne

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Res…

- Laurence Sterne

It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertain…

- Laurence Sterne

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

- Laurence Sterne