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."

"Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas."

"So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil."

"Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness."

"People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy."

"People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy."