Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.
Laurence SterneThe more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.
Laurence SterneShall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?
Laurence SterneI live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more when he laughs, it adds some thing to his fragment of life.
Laurence Sterne