In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. – Laurence Sterne
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. – Laurence Sterne
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. – Laurence Sterne
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. – Laurence Sterne
Ah, if he could have plunged up into the clouds, so as to sweep thereon through the undulating heavens over the boundless earth!—ah, if he could have floated with the flower-fragrance over the flowers,—could have streamed with the wind over the summits, through the woods! – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,