I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.
Laurence SterneGreat is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.
Laurence SterneIf death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,--then certes the soul does not inhabit there.
Laurence Sterne