Laurence Sterne quotes

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

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

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

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

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

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.