We all cry out that the world is corrupt,--and I fear too justly,--but we never reflect, what we have to thank for it, and that itis our open countenance of vice, which gives the lye to our private censures of it, which is its chief protection and encouragement.
Laurence SterneSimplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.
Laurence SterneKeyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
Laurence SterneWhatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.
Laurence SterneUpon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.
Laurence Sterne