Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
Laurence SterneWhen, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.
Laurence SterneSo 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.
Laurence SterneAs monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may wore properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame.
Laurence Sterne